Language of Prosperous India
India is a place of many languages. People of different
cultures, different history, different customs, different beliefs, and of
different languages call themselves Indians. Many intellectual people are
fighting for decades to make Hindi as the national language of India. But does
it really make sense? How can these people expect that everybody in this
nation can speak Hindi?
If we organize a poll to find the opinion of masses of
India from different geographical backgrounds, I am very much sure that the
vote count from South India, North East, and even the Intellectual hub of
India-West Bengal would vote out the idea of Hindi as the national language of
this nation.
National language is ought to be a language which can be
easily understood and spoken fluently by all people of that country. It should
be one which can empower people to freely and easily communicate with his
fellow countrymen regardless of their geographical and cultural differences,
but is it right with Hindi?? Definitely not! People in North East may have
different regional languages and several dialects, but the language in which
they easily communicate with one another is English. They break their
geographical shackles and cultural differences because of a common language i.e. English. Would they be able to speak in Hindi? May be ask a Manipuri and ‘no’
would be the reply. The same is true with South Indians. Despite having different
set of languages a person from Andhra can easily communicate with a Tamil in
English.
The Gandhian national movement for independence was also
motivated by same sort of instinct. The Hindu centric movement which Gandhi patronized is the main cause of partition of the country and now some brain
heads want to cut down the country by promoting a language which is not even
spoken by country's 60% population fluently!!
Today we need a secularist approach in finding one language
for the country’s over 1.2 billon population so that they can easily
communicate with each other and can easily come under a same roof by
understanding each others problem and daily life. To make the country stand in
the queue of the developed nation we first have to attain brotherhood among the
people and that can only be achieved when they’ll be able to express themselves
to each other. So it’s high time we break the language barrier and accept
English as the best gift of the Brits to attain communion among our people so
that they can collectively work for the betterment of this huge versatile
nation.