Should Hindi be the official language of India?

Question is not just about which language should NL, actually are we on the right path to bbecoming a developed country. The answer is no.

First of all, Indian constitutional structure is wrong we have 29 different states which are equivalent to 29 different countries similar to countries in the European Union. Most of the EU countries are developed but India even after 70 years of independence still underdeveloped country. Reasons are we could not follow capitalism properly like all developed countries have followed or currently following. We are the only country which directly jumped to service sector from agriculture we have almost skipped manufacturing step due to this most jobs we have are either related to service sector or agriculture when it comes to manufacturing of good products we import them from other countries because of this we have big trade deficit. Now if we want to solve this issue n become manufacturing major we have give good quality industry oriented practical education in this case which language will we choose for education English or Hindi as we know AFA English is concerned our large mass really can't do critical thinking in English as most of our mass belongs to rural. N for Hindi only northern states are comfortable others are not so both choices are wrong whole nation education system. If we really want to follow capitalism in right manner we must get quality technical education in our mother tongue this applies to every state of India, that is what is done Japan, Korea, Germany, France, UK, China. They take knowledge in their mother tongue so they better understands it n their people use this knowledge to create products which create jobs n industries. While in India we people get education in English which only God knows how many of us really understands deeply & result is in front of us we have very well English speaking people in Asia. Even after producing 1. 5 lakh on paper engineers how many jobs were created I have seen people who are engineers, science graduates, PhDs they are filling applications banking jobs, government Jobs. Even after taking technical education why such bad time come to you answer either you did not study or you could not understand what you were taught in institutes. What our graduates do apart from speaking good English can they good technology products, can they create a new research or do inventions probably is the answer is NO. The biggest fault of our education system is that we are producing English speaking people under the name of education which don't have any knowledge to produce anything they are just good at English talking. Our tongues are molded but brains are wasted because of a deficit of education system. The economy runs by-products, services we are good are creating services not products so our youth is getting unemployed. We are importing electronics, technologies, advanced healthcare devices, advanced medicines, fuel, engines, machines, vehicles, bullet trains. Which we could have designed by yourself if our youth had got a quality education in their own mother tongue. We have destroyed our brains of youth by giving education in a foreign language. Look at the area of any European country all are so small compared to our states but well developed than India. We really need to change our centralised system to distributed one. Each state must take responsibility to develop their economy. ONE PARLIAMENT in Delhi really can never handle the burden of 29 states. We need to change our centralised system to states focused system.

Yes, Hindi should become the National Language. My reasons for that are quite simple. Firstly that we are from Bharat Varsh and not from India. India is not the Countries name, it was given to us by Greeks and Romans because they could only reach till Indus river which is actually the Sindhu River. Then if we see our History which is as old as 50000 years when Shiva came on the Himalayas and enlightened the people of these lands and from where our actual history starts and not from Indus Valley Civ which was taught to us by the British Historians and seeded in our minds. Our History was Distorted by these people and then Sanskrit too was never an Indo-Aryan Language because there is nothing like Aryan Race. Again a Hoax to divide us. So Sanskrit is as old as 50000 years but then nobody used to write anything but the knowledge was oral it was only around 3500 B.C when our ancestors started writing due to Invention of Paper type materials. Anyways so Sanskrit was an extremely old language and by 800 B.C Sanskrit got simplified into different Languages like Hindi and Malayalam, Tamil etc. But still, Hindi was found out to be an easier language to learn, write and communicate with and a more sophisticated Language. Further, Hindi evolved too and as adopted by many other regions it was distorted like in Haryana where they speak Haryanvi, Bihar-Bihari and etc but they still are not real part of Real Hindi. Actual Hindi was more sophisticated just like what was used in the TV series Chanakya made around 1991 or so. That was real Hindi. But today's Hindi is actually quite disturbing to hear because we included all kind of Urdu and English words into that and somehow they made a beautiful language into a wild Language. Hindi became the second language in Bharat because we are made to hate it in Schools. Everywhere in the World Counties are United because of their one Language Identity and of course Language is a parameter of Unity. We always have been fighting among each other because of Culture differences and more importantly different Languages that we speak. Todays Bharat needs only one Language to remain United or else we would again fight and get divided I am sure of that. Different Languages means different cultures, different opinion and different histories which would surely become a reason of Conflict in years to come and then fight for Independence from Bharat. Why Hindi? Well because Hindi is a direct Descendant from Sanskrit. Pure Hindi is a basic evolution of Sanskrit and that it keeps Sanskrit alive. Other languages might be also children of Sanskrit but they are difficult to be spoken and represent a culture sect. While Hindi doesn't represent a culture sect but represent the Philosophy of Bharat Varsh and is like the eldest Child of Sanskrit. Pure Hindi should surely become the National Language of Bharat because it would help to keep Bharat United for years to come and stop the unstoppable division of this country again due to so many languages and culture divisions. This is my take on this issue.

Hello, everyone.

This is Md Samirul from Mechanical stream, Jamia Millia Islamia.

I would like to take the initiative to initiate this GD.

In India, around 44% of people can speak and understand Hindi. But we have to need to know also how many languages we lost to make this much of a percentage.

What happens with the Bhojpuri, what happens with the Maithili, Marwari, Haryanvi, Rajasthani, Surjapuri and many more languages and many more dialects of the language we lost to achieve this figure of Hindi. We should not forget one thing"Lost of language is lost of culture". India is a diverse country wherein every part and corner is a different culture and different language besides.

In India, there are 107M Bengali speakers, 99M Marathi, 94M Telugu, 77M Tamil, 60M Gujrati, 62M Urdu, 52M Kannada, 42M odia, 35M Malayalam, 36M Punjabi, 23M Assamese what about this person? Apart from this, we have seven sisters (North East) who have their language and culture and where many tribes lives. So we need to think about all of them.

But in these, all one thing in common you know what is that?

That is 'English '. India 🇮🇳 is already the world's 2nd largest English speaking nation and still, this number is increasing day by day that day is not far away when we will be on TOP. If you will go to any part of India then you can easily communicate if know English and apart from this our academic curriculum follows in English, even government release any notice/guidelines or something is in English, his/her tweets are in English even as releases in English, the Indian judiciary system follow English.

There are many points/reasons on which we can easily say that English will National language. And this will opens the door to many more opportunities for us. Every person around the world 🌎 can work with us and we can work with them easily without any language barriers.

Like this, there is no valid point with Hindi.

Even those 40% of Hindi speakers don't speak pure Hindi, in their sentences 50% of words are from Urdu and other languages.

Then how can we consider Hindi an official language or a National Language?

First of all, I would like to clear the topic i.e., should Hindi be our official language or not, friends, making Hindi official language doesn't mean that people can't speak other languages, of course, they can speak other languages too, but they should know Hindi as well.

As far as my opinion, is concerned, Hindi should be made our official language:-.

Language is not only a way of communication rather a key to making the sense of unity. A common language makes a united sense in the whole country. People in their own country are not understanding others language, why to give example to go to foreign countries. What a unity is this, we are Indian but are not understanding the words of Indians from different corners of our country. There should be a common language so that people of our country can understand others feeling where ever they go, there is no need to give an example of going to other countries to understand language.

And our national language is Hindi, so why not the whole country should know Hindi. We are just insulting our Constitution by not knowing our national language.

All the developed countries have their own common language when they deal with other countries why don't they use other countries' language, they use their own language, so why not we use our own language, why we use their language to talk to them (English language).

Friends, our ancestors have sacrificed their life for uniting the country and we are fighting here for language. Hindustan is from Hindi, yes it's true that learning Hindi in southern states is tougher, it will take time but not more than the time taken by our ancestors to free our country from Britishers. Yes, it will hamper the efficiency of people but it will come to the level in less than 200 years for which we were ruled by the English people.

It's not only we should talk about comfort, nationality is also a word.

Let's get into the facts now Hindi speaking states in India are Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh (10 out of 29) I think majorly people who are supporting Hindi as NL should be belonging to these states and they are right from their point of view because it's convenient for them but what have you thought about people belonging from states like Karnataka, Tamilnadu, Kerala, Andhra, Telangana, North Eastern states if you observe they don't understand even alphabets of Hindi. By imposing them Hindi as NL don't you feel we are doing injustice to all these states or is it the price they have to pay for being part of the union of India who's administration is getting controlled by city namely Delhi which is again part of Hindi spoken region of the nation. If you have the right to preserve your language then why others don't have it this can't happen in democratic nation n if it going to happen then you are going destroy other 21 languages for the sake of Hindi and language is not just medium of talking it has culture, values, identity if all Hindi speaking states would be pressurised to talk in Tamil or any other Indian language what will happen to mother tongue skill (viz Hindi) I think its common sense thing put you into others shoes first. If you can't-do it you should not force it on others. And those who have the perception that all Indians understand should clear their facts by visiting non-Hindi states and go to a rural region as well not just cities then only they will realize by imposing Hindi on them how miserable life they can have because of you. And in the constitution, every individual has right to protect their language article 29. If we don't follow it we are going against the constitution.

Those people who are favouring Hindi in this forum belongs to northern states of the country who think each & every Indian from all states do understand Hindi first of all they have never been in South India basically all southern languages are completely different from Hindi viz. Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam. In order to make common language for we will have to teach them to learn Hindi this act doesn't make difference to northern states because their dialects are similar to Hindi so it's natural for them to pick Hindi language easily & it's convenient decision for them too because they don't have to take efforts to learn anything new. Now when you impose this decision to southern states we should use our common sense that southern languages are completely different from Hindi n these people don't have even their alphabets similar to Hindi. In this scenario southern people will have to struggle to learn this language against their will which is against the fundamental right to preserve their language and there is really no need to speak Hindi to show unity if we really want to maintain unity first respect others emotions & respect their choices and their mother tongue which represent their values just bringing all people on common language platform won't bring unity it will rather create dissent n injustice feeling in large mass of nation. India has two official languages Hindi and English. If you can't talk Hindi which is convenient to north India then talk in English which is familiar to all Indians because English is common language of education all over nation. If we keep on insisting & impose Hindi on all then that day is not far when our all beautiful mother tongues will be degraded and vanished for the sake of one language which has happened to Maithili already.

Hi, friends as the topic of discussion is Hindi be the official language of India.

First of all, I want to tell exactly what is the official language. The Official language is that which is use by the government, public and citizen for the official purpose, official paper, official meet and interaction between public and government official and mostly in education. Therefore official language has an enormous impact on economic, social relation.

Now, in my opinion, Hindi should not be made the official language of India as of now. I like to dictate the following reason.

1. As of now, we are a developing country, due to which we need to take help from other developing country and most of the developed country has an official language is English. Therefore as a developing country, we need to improve our relationship with other developed countries for bilateral talking, discussion. Therefore for sharing an issue, we need to communicate in English.

2. India is a diverse country, where there is a different culture, different language, different religion due to which making Hindi as an official language is a big issue. Most of the region in India does not know how to speak, write Hindi. Therefore if Hindi will make an official language than there will be chaos.

Apart from this, I want to inform that our neighbouring country China use only there language mandarine. But we can not follow them. Because there are develop the country and now they do not need help from others. In this globalised world, they can survive very well, as we know they are 12 trillion dollar economy after the USA.

Finally, I want to tell that if one day Hindi will become an official language I will very happy after becoming a developed country. Thank you.

Hindi is already an official language along with 22 other languages and it is the official language along with English for the functioning of the Union Government. Now the question is should we make it the only official language for the whole country?

My first point in opposition to this is that there are crores of people in different states who can read their mother tongue but not Hindi or English, and making Hindi the only official language of government will affect them.

The second point is that if Hindi is the mother tongue for the Hindi speaking region, then their profit will be huge but people of other states will be at a loss in their own country. The language can be learnt, yet where the Hindi speaker will study only mathematics and science, the non-Hindi speaker will have to study mathematics and science as well as the language being used in it. Today, even if an exam is conducted in English, all are equal, both Hindi speaking and non-Hindi speaking. And everyone is free to read in their own language too.

No one's gain, no one's loss!

It is a matter of fact that in a government job, everyone has to work in different states, so it is not a problem. Whenever one has to go for a job in the state, training for the language is always given.

The third point is in opposition to it that while English has already challenged our linguistic diversity, why should we eliminate this diversity? Why don't we read English in such a way that it is a language which will keep us connected to the world, else we should love our mother tongue and read and talk in it. Also reading Hindi and Dravidian languages 'in the same way, that it will keep us connected with each other.

When we talk of "Bharat" and feel proud to be a part of one of the oldest and modest civilisations in the world, we need to have a heart full of respect and ambitions for our nation. It is our country which has given us identity, safety and pride in ourselves. When we talk of being a Bengali, a Tamil, a Maharashtrian or an Assamese (for instance) , we are doing nothing but decreasing our own stature. We as Indians, have certain obligations towards India and giving her a national language is one of them. India needs a national language to develop, academically, economically as well as emotionally. When it comes to Hindi, there are many who stand against it, but let us analyse the situation keeping aside our thoughts as speakers of a certain mother tongue or being residents of a particular state. I have travelled far and wide in my country and have found that people even in the state of Manipur are fluent in Hindi. Making Hindi the national language will not decrease the importance of any other Indian language, rather it will give us all a sense of linguistic identity which we require, especially in the education sector where we are forced to learn a foreign language. India has always respected every religion, culture and language. Should we not shun our personal preferences and show an example of unity in diversity in the world! Hindi is a relatively easy language which Indians can easily learn as the second language in states where it is not spoken. Having a national language will show India's strength to the world and give the others a message that we will not compromise even when it comes to communication. For everything else, there are translators!

The Main issue is with the structure of India it is a union but not federation. Due to this states voice gets drowned in such scenario where the center is made too strong to control states. Those who pretend one nation one language should understand that those countries who could follow above principle did not have people with different languages with different races with different cultures so above rule is not applicable to India. North Indian states find Hindi as a convenient language so they prefer Hindi as an official language, while south Indian people Tamil is familiar language to their native tongue but it doesn't mean Tamil should be made the official language of India same principle applies to Hindi as well. As English is alien language to northern states in same way Hindi is alien language to south India. As most knowledge is available in English it has become the language of knowledge while mother tongue helps us to preserve our culture and statehood. So to get knowledge n preserve culture English and native languages are essential and should be mandatory. Apart from this those who are interested to learn any language they are always free to learn it but by choice not by force in a democracy. We have imitated our parliament structure from united kingdom but the bitter truth is that our nation structure is not like United kingdom but it is like the European Union itself. So the inference is that this quasi-federalism must get changed to real federalism like the USA to preserve the true spirit of federalism.