Hindi Divas

The beauty of my motherland undoubtedly lies in her unity in diversity. You see it all around the landscape, cast, creed, religion, language. She was believed to be a rich land where golden sparrow nested on every tree.

Unfortunately, over a period of time there were intruders, looters and traders trying to take away whatever they can and want and leaving behind a mark memorable adding to the beauty and diversity of this country. They helped us become a unified nation but also created a divide, for which there were many sacrifices.

Unification came with many challenges including many of the princely states wanting to remain independent, creation of legislation, deciding on the national capital, many still unresolved. One of the major decision taken was to create a linguistics division of states, which again was a matter of great debate. As there was no consensus in having a common national language it was decided that Hindi would be the official language, followed by English for a foreseeable period considering the number of people using it. Sanskrit would have been preferred but many did not know or understand the language, except for elite few.. Given that the decision was made on a 14th of September, that day was considered to be Hindi Divas.

Tamilnadu is one state which objected to Hindi for long time coz they wanted a respectable place for Tamil, which is one of the oldest language in the world. We need to preserve our cultural heritage. Giving a special historical recognition for Tamil would be a good move to begin with.

Hindi is already our official language but by instigating it as 'national language' all over again to compel every citizen of India to learn it comes with a motive.It is not said anywhere or not been declared but from childhood it has been taught widely in school is Hindi hamari rashtra bhasha hai. Well, that's kind of similar to we having national bird too. A lie is a lie. Not sure if it was part of NCERT books.But these were taught in schools in 80s and 90s. Who was responsible for it then?


India has diversity in multiple levels. We are already unified in our diversity but to bring in something of this sort now is to bring in regional conflicts which will end up diverting people focus away from other grave issues of present. Strongly believe bringing this up now has different motive.

Having national language is good and we actually represent India with Hindi, it is by default our national language. It is already been used and taught widely in our country. Slowly when things changed,every state also slowly accepted and adapted but they bring up something of this sort again to rub salt on the wounds which is unacceptable and creates unnecessary Chaos. Probably that was their intention, to divert the attention of the masses. Should we fall a prey to that?

Not necessarily but for me it is like UK opting out of EU Treaty. As my vision is towards one-ness of all.

True it should be organic. Strongly feel we should have a national language. I’ve great respect for our diversity but what’s the harm in agreeing to something that can bring us closer and make us feel united. If Hindi is taught across India - it can be a single language that can bind us together. Hindi is not my mother tongue either. But I won’t take offense in it being made a National Language.
It's not just people south of India but good part of Northeast and interiors of rest of India, people don't speak Hindi. They speak dialects of their province. For Instance my friends from Maharashtra say I will not assert that I come from Maharastra, so I’ll only speak in Marathi. Google says, about 41% of the Indian population speak Hindi. What’s the harm?
Regional languages will continue to flourish- they will and must continue to be taught in schools. Just like we had English as first Language, Hindi as second and then Marathi.

The irony is we have no problem accepting English which is not even a native language.