Should Hindi be the official language of India?

India is the only land that has sheltered 22 major languages with over 720 dialects. We cannot have an instant disruption to challenge this complexity with the introduction of a national language.

It's a fact that Hindi is the most commonly spoken indigenous language. We have almost every school in the country with a provision to learn and teach Hindi. But it has not attained a momentum in many of our southern states. So it is not an appreciable progress to declare Hindi as our official language. But it would be good if we have a good stand with Hindi since it virtually act as a highly consistent language of the country. Once the whole Nation attain the ability to flawlessly use this language, we can rethink to proceed this Noble movement.

Think, doesn't It sound very odd when an Indian need a translator to communicate with another Indian. We always say unity in diversity, but does it really work?

We all know how many problems is faced due to the language barrier. And if it continues in future then the day would no far when all states will divide themselves on the basis of their language.

If anyone directly says that XYZ (either Hindi or for other) should be the official language then it may cause a civil war. But we all now that we need a common language, so for this we must choose that language which has a majority. And people who are not comfortable with that language should provide facilities to learn it by making it a permanent subject in academic studies.

Thank you.

It will be very dangerous to declare Hindi as the national language. When we go back to after independence era most of the states in India wanted a separate identity and state independent of any central control mostly on language basis. In India, everyone is fine with English as it international language but a very few people can stand the idea of Hindi as National language. Unity in diversity is just a good phrase to shed good light on our country. But inside you know how united everyone in this country is. The adverse effects of this measure are too much compared to benefits like there will be extreme violence against Hindi-speaking people in non-Hindi speaking states. It is a very dangerous thought which should never come to our minds.

Hello, it's Jyoti. I'm completely against to this topic reason being India is a country which has a number of languages. People from the different state have their own language. Thus India is not dependent on only one language. For eg, if we assume Hindi to be our official language it won't work because a person from belonging from south India will not be able to understand. See we should not be diplomatic that both Hindi and English will work yes English being a common language not only for India bit for the whole world is the only language for an official matter so that everyone can understand it better. Being an Indian we cannot give preference to our Hindi. Because India itself has many languages then why only Hindi.

In my opinion, Yes, Hindi should be the official language of India because.

(1). Official language does not refer to the language used by a people, while official language is the language used in government (i.e court, parliament. Etc). And in India's court and parliament, Hindi language is used.

(2). Each state of India has it's own mother' language. So we need one official language which we all understand. And Hindi language is widely used or spoken by most of the people (or 80% of the people) of India.

(3). India is also known as "Hindustan" and the word "Hindustan" indicate that the India is the land of Hindi speaking people even the people are educated or not.

(4). The Hindi language is at a fifth position.

Hindi should not be the only official language of India. The official language status should be accorded to multiple languages. If it is not possible, then English should be the only official language. Education helps a child grow up and especially our higher education courses are very important. Most of our higher education courses are in English medium. Technically, English should be our default official language. If we consider the notion of identity, we must understand that Hindi is not the identity of person from non-Hindi states. Therefore, officially all languages should be nurtured equally by the GOI. The GOI should not indulge in micromanaging or manipulating language used in the everyday private chats.

Hello everybody, According to my point of view, Hindi should be the official language in India, because in most of the states in India people speak in Hindi language to express themselves. We know that in every country, the language in which most of the people speak is become their official language, like 'German' for Germany, 'Italiano' for Italy, 'Russ' for Russians etc. But India has no official language, here most of the people speak Hindi for local speaking. Although English is must be needed to keep relation with foreign countries but as most of the people here speak in Hindi, and most of them don't speak in English, so obviously Hindi should become the official language in India. - Thank you.

According to me, Hindi should be the national language. It is a fact that around 42% of people of India use Hindi as their mother tongue and rest are Bengali, Marathi, Tamil, Telegu etc. So we have known Hindi is the majority language and it is already famous for all and can be easily understandable, yes it can be a little bit hard for South Indian states but if they try it must be easy. Most of the developed countries maintain national language and another regional language as well. Without a national language, how can we become a nation?

So we should favour Hindi as the national language, English is the second official language and then another regional language. Thank you.

It's purely politics, But from the bottom of my heart, I would tell one should love his mother tongue, now comes the official language policy. I would tell that has further made us distant in terms of feeling superior or inferior. I fail to understand the mix of blended languages used by a foreign language is Hindi. Does it belong to Any state in my Mother INDIA? then why this? Never you can impose anybody on language, let the need arise, let individuals decide, what is the literacy rate in India as of now?

First, let us make India 100% literacy. , but surely imposing a language in a different state will cause an unhealthy environment, So Hindi should not be made compulsory.

According to my view, English should be the official language of India because nowadays all the official work, interviews, are based on English language there is no use of Hindi and English medium school are also increasing in number in the comparison of Hindi medium school it is true that Hindi realise India's rich history or culture but if we talk about development it is important than culture so many peoples are saying that Hindi is easy to understand and speak, this is the basic problem of Indians that they don't want to try something hard in their life they want everything easy for them the last but not the least English should be the official language of India.

Thanks.