Hindi Divas is celebrated in India on 14 September every year. On this day, Hindi (Devanagari script) was adopted as the official language of the Republic of India by the Constituent Assembly. Since that day most of the Hindi newspaper dislike English as a language of communication amongst (elite) citizens of our country.
Just like some of us do not know good English, we criticize it on the pretext that this is the language of imperial power that enslaved and partitioned our country. Please come out of history and live in the present world.
You believe it or not, today, English is used in business, economics, politics, scientific discoveries, technological innovations and so on and in spite of its regarded unscientific by Hindi scholars, it is one of the richest languages with more than 600,000+ (as per the Oxford Dictionary) excluding medical, engineering, technical and other scientific terms.
It is good that you advocate Hindi and want it to be a national language of India, along with several vernacular languages spoken in various states. However, just like Gujarati, Marathi or Tamil, English is also state language of Nagaland. In 1967, the state Assembly of Nagaland had proclaimed English as their official language; and you must be aware that Nagaland is an integral part of India.
The contrast between English and our vernacular dialects is our failure to assimilate the foreign words in our vocabulary or coining relevant words for enriching our own language, making it more relevant to modern inventions and discoveries. We don’t want to shun our historic purity of conversation; anything alien is bad for us.
May I ask, the medium of your children's education?
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