Should Hindi be the official language of India?

Hi,

I do believe in patriotism and the respect of our culture, Hindi is already our national language making it our official language will only make things more confusing around us, there are people (especially the south Indians) still don't know Hindi. Hindi is only used when you have to deal with work or communication to the local people especially in the rural areas other than that there is no requirement to know Hindi. With the use of simple English language, you can live and survive in India. Hence there is no need to make Hindi as our official language it's already our National language and let's respect it and be proud of it.

No, it should not be because constitution of India has also provisions for other languages.

Well guys with all due respect to our national language, I consider Hindi shouldn't be our official language right now, as I'm from south India from the past decade Hindi is taught in our school as mandatory so the present generation can manage to do the official government work in Hindi as well, but the previous generation they can't even understand it very well. So after some after each and every state are made to at least write in Hindi we may declare Hindi as our official language.

Hi, readers.

I am here to just correct Ms.Kritikakapoors sentence she told Hindustan is meant for the land of speaking Hindi. It is absolutely wrong its meaning is the land of Hindus. And yes, of course, we are living in a large country with so many languages so we need to unite by one language but why only Hindi. There are other languages hugely spoken by others like Telugu, Bengali etc. So someone says Hindi spoken people are high that's why we should use Hindi as official. But today English is mandatory everywhere why don't you put English as official. Even it is very beneficial to travel around the world. Some regional areas like Tamilnadu they oppose Hindi strongly. And in the South Indian States, they don't know proper Hindi because they can't speak Hindi in society other than text books. In this case, why not we choose English as an official language. Being Hindi as an official language it leads to discrimination too. The exams like UPSC, SSC in that exams the Hindi spoken people are benefitted what about others. Please, guys think about it.

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In my opinion Hindi should be a official language of India. Majority of India use Hindi as a language for the communication. Compared to other language Hindi is very easy to understand. English considered as a global language. It is necessary to maintain foreign relationships. I am a keralian. In my highersecondry I took Hindi as my second language. Now a days majority of students in Kerala use Hindi as a second language. Because we try to respect our official 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.

Hindi must not be the official language. How would you feel if your mother is dragged out and replaced by another? Hindi speaking people, on the other hand, must learn to respect India of her diversity and cultural heritage. People In this forum supporting Hindi need to have some gratitude, for south has provided shelter to millions and millions of north Indians. Is this a way to show your respect in return?

No, As Hindi is a language that is only at the convenience of the northern states and doesn't take into consideration the southern states such as Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. So a language that almost everyone can speak in our country is english. Because of the british english english was spread all across the country and was used by everyone. So I think english should be the national language and it should be mandatory for everyone in India to be literate in english.

Thank you.

It can be the official language of India but it requires huge time to make it official. I can say for our generation it can't be the official language but from next generation, I can be official and this will take time.

India has around 200 languages in 33 states.

And we have to select only one, those persons who understand Hindi will be beneficial for them if we make it official.

Every person brought up with his/her mother tongue and they learn English side by side so that they can communicate in future. If they can learn English then they also can learn Hindi.

French and China has their official language as French and Chinese respectively and most of the youth of China never learn English due to which they can not apply for the foreign jobs but in India youth learn English they apply for the post of CEO like Sunder Lal Pichai (google ceo) and it is also beneficial in cricket also, most of the country talk in English only and Indian easily understand their plans but Indians like dhoni instruct the teammates in Hindi but sludges the opponent in their own language (English).

Yes, if we compare India to other countries so India have only where people officially they prefer English and locally they use Hindi language. Every country has their identical language but only India who doesn't have their identity to present their language i.e. Hindi. Notably, I absolutely agree with these that we should have Hindi as our official language in India.