As long as there are attitudes like “Mohan” to dominate and impose their “Concept” of Indianess which is speaking “Hindi” on other groups like Marathis/Tamils/Bengalis..they will be given back with an equally “In Your Face” attitude..

Seeing your chauvinism for Hindi..I hope you are sending your children to a Hindi Only school..If you aren’t then you are a hypocrite!!

Once again, and hopefully it will illuminate and expand your narrow horizons..I am an optimist.

We love our Country India dearly and in our own way…We don’t require your certification..We have already shown it in action..”Abdul Kalam” End of Story..Our patriotism for India is not based on Language/Religion/Ethnicity..It is higher than that..It is based on our rich wisdom and culture..This is what Tamil culture has always taught us to be moral and just.

We love the beauty and wisdom of our Tamil Language, People and Culture in our own way..

We refuse to be judged by “your” standards of patriotism and philosophy..which is narrow minded and based on just speaking another regional language of North India aka Hindi.

Learn to respect Punjabi/Marathi/Tamil/Bengali/Telugu..Your language is no super language..It is just another regional language as well..the list goes on….When you respect others, you will automatically be respected.

Do not lecture others on patriotism and expect others to accept your way of living..

Learn to Live and let live..
Just by saying “Jai Hind” doesn’t make you any more nationalistic…

But we love our country India and its people dearly as well
Jai Hind..

Jai Hindi, Jai Bharat
Mohan

Finally, you have to live in stone age!!
So please stop vilifying and living in the past. We have to march forward with optimism and confidence not with hatred and old grievances…

What is/does it to be Indian after 62yrs of Independence?
To speak Hindi No!! (Because our national heroes speak different languages)
To be Hindu No!! (Because Abdul Kalam is the father of our missile programme)

We have to be smart and open ourselves to the world and pick up the best practices from the world into our country/psyche, throw away our negative points and reject the negatives that come along with the good practices and move forward. Simple.

Be Indian, but with the Best Practices from the World for modernisation. No Change will come unless we first change!!

What to do when someone don’t like English as it is foreign. The discussion is so far so good. The Tamil sentiment is meaningful. And i insist on not just learning a single language Hindi but all the Indian regional languages are the valuable property of that community and India as a whole, and as per we come across them we should learn them with utmost
respect and love as it is a part of integral India.

So we need to learn all Indian languages and not just one as per time and interest.

So as long as u r an Indian it doesn’t matter what Indian language we use as per time and place.

So the choice is urs and only urs.

when we talk of education there must be at least three four languages from childhood as its easy learning while u r a child.

Now the question is what language should a person from another country use in India for communication.

The most simplest answer will be English. But i discard the choice English as the single language to use as it is foreign and a left over by the inhuman British traders who looted India for centuries. How could we praise our looters. Those rapper and decoets.

Those who come to India for the purpose of looting us.
How could we respect those past years of shame and disglory.

As; if we go to china they treat us like Chinese, if we go to America they treat us like Americans.

In the same way if they come to our home we really need to treat them somewhat in Indian way rather than treating them like the Britain.

We r not Britain but India. then what is the proof that we r India.

We just can’t say that if french come we will treat them in french and if German come like Germans.

So the point is that we need to become Indians.

Now if Tamilians say that if they come to TN we serve them like Tamils and if they come to ur state u decide urs..

Then two things can be said
either they don’t believe in national integrity

or they are more than neccessary proud to be tamils

or both.

To such a extent that they r ready to take English as the national language but not any Indian language.

This gives the clear message that they were quite happy with the English rulling India that even after 60 years they can’t just live without it and its a integral part of them may be mixed with blood.

Giving the logic that much of the technology and scientific work is done in English so its the most important. Hear i doubt that these are the same Tamilians who say no hindi or no Indian Union at all.

At one hand telling stories of mother language and respect and on the other hand being the slave of British.

Because of the lack of national integrity we Indians are being taken far from Indian culture and civilization by the brutal hands of english.

slowly western culture, western cloths, western food entering our lives removing the Indian within us.

Foreign companies coming to india in 1000s to cut the production here and forcing our farmers to die.

today we like imported dogs more than indian dogs, imported cats more than indian cats,,,same with horeses, cows…and finally clothes, foods….everything that we use from morning to night..

Even we like American wives.

For this reason we first need to be indians by using indian.

what language becomes national laguage is not important but it most be indian thats important.

JAI HIND.
BHARAT MATA KI JAI.

Interesting discussion here. Being Bengali, my native language is the closest one can get to real spoken Hindi. Despite being able to speak the so-called “national language” very fluently, I strongly oppose its imposition on states that do not have anything to do with Hindi.

In any case, Bollywood has ensured that many Indians except those in the South, are able to communicate basic Hindi to make a Hindi-speaker comfortable. How much more do you expect non-Hindi speakers to bend over backwards?

Besides, having extensive exposure to North Indians, I don’t think the official strand of Hindi taught in school curriculum is spoken by them at all. Almost all Hindi speakers (except those from UP and Bihar) I run into speak a colloquial, hybridizied form of Hindi which deviates far from official, standardized Hindi.

In practice, the Hindi spoken by an average Hindi-speaker is infused with a lot of Urdu words, Punjabi, Haryanvi slang, “mother sister” expletives and lots of invented double-meaning expressions which don’t make any sense to non-native Hindi speakers. Why do you think we should put up with that?

The situation, becomes thus, the imposition of North Indian culture on other states, which is simply unacceptable for a pluralist society like India. We believe in building a multi-cultural, multi-lingual and tolerant country. Why can’t you see it is you staunch Hindi zealots and your aggressive stance on Hindi, that is standing in the way? For a change, why don’t more of you learn a regional language and not stick to your bigoted stance on Hindi?

I believe schools in all North Indian states should have the option to learn a third regional language just as schools in other states have Hindi as third language.

The reality is a majority of Hindi-speakers really do not want to learn regional languages. They consider regional languages inferior to Hindi. The same gesture in turn, is reciprocated by non-Hindi speakers.

It must be clear to you neither party would want to compromise their language preferences in any way, the only solution for everyone therefore, is to learn English and bury the discussions.

40% Indians speak Hindi, so hindi is declared as National Language. Now your qestion is it os only 40%, then why should other 60% people be forced to learn it !
Your Answer is: Take a scenario, When there are 3 parties, Party-1 has got 40% votes, party-2 got 30% & Party-3 got 30% votes, then who will be the ruler ?? Obviously Party-1. And now government (party-1) passes GOs (Gov Orders), 100% of the people should follow those.
It’s as simple as that. This is democracy. Things will always be done with the option of majority people’s choice and it may not be Ok for 100% of people.

My Answer Is: This is not Democracy. I think you got it wrong. Does this mean then if tomorrow, majority of Indians want a nation based on Hindu religion, you will go for it?? Your understanding of Democracy is “Dictatorial Democracy where the Majority inflict Dictatorship on the Minority”..India never ever had that tradition. So lets keep it that way..And the Government has passed an order stating that unless all the states agree upon a common language, it will not be adopted.

Your Answer:
To whoever spoken abt Const: Please don’t speak of constituency when you don’t know properly how the constituency will be amended for any new passes. It’s always done with the option of majority people’s choice.

My Answer:
Already explained above. Democratic Democracy has already been implemented in India. So its already done and dusted.

All Tamilians: You always say you don’t need any other language to learn. It’s upto you till where you go unless it doesn’t effect others. But When you come to other states in India, don’t blame people bcoz they don’t know English or Tamil and you are not able to manage things there without any person (Friend) who knows Hindi.Obviously if you go to shops or Auto wala etc they can’t speak English for you. First you should blame yourself coz you didn’t learn Hindi. This is all reason there should be one common language in India for communication.

My Answer:
No Tamil Guy says that..All they say is that, “Please don’t lecture me on Patriotism/Nationalism/etc/etc…If I need to learn Hindi or Sindhi or Urdu, I will learn of my own will and choice and necessity”
There is no problem in not learning Hindi in a globalised world..All this communication with people from all over india is happening in English and everyone is fine with it, so why this Phony Lingual based Nationalism? I simply don’t understand from where the “Insecurity” is coming in from..In your day to day work, simply ask yourself which language are you using the most..The Newspaper, The News, The Internet, The Workplace, The Rail Ticket forms, The Exam papers, The books you read, The Movies you watch..

Perfectly agree with you and I am on your side when someone goes to another city and complains that people don’t speak English/Tamil. I have never seen any Tamil person like that so far in my life. Either they return back or they shut up and start learning Hindi in other cities of residence for communication. They don’t crib about it all the time and complain without acting..

However, its been more of the other case, where people of different lingua franca upon internal migration to other cities in india, do not want to learn the local language even after staying there for 20 years. Would Indians dare to do the same outside India when going to America or other countries? Look at whats happening in Mumbai with the thackerays and in Bangalore with the Kannada movement..so its an indian wide spread characteristic and does not apply to a particular lingual group alone

Your Answer:
But please don’t have a mindset like Tamil people to avoid a National Language intentionally.

My Answer:
That’s an outdated mindset which no longer applies to Tamil People..The intentions of Tamils is simple and clear..We learn Tamil/English and if required will learn Hindi based on each person’s necessity/will/choice/circumstance.
If you learnt Hindi/French/Bengali or Esperanto, thats great and good for you..the more the merrier..I dont understand why you are worried for an other person’s choice??

Your View:
But if you stay in Hyderabad or Bangalore I don’t think you will find a language problem there bcoz most of the people (even Shop keepers & Auti waalas etc..) speak Hindi well there.

My View:
Everything comes out of economic need and Money..People speak a language for economic progress…The example you quoted is perfect..So good for them…It was their personal choice..

In India,
Mumbai: Bus boards written only in Marathi(Devanagiri Numerals)..only in the side boards, its written in English…ooops, did i miss my bus to East Bandra already???

Bangaluru: Bus boards written only in Kannada

Kochin: Bus boards written only in Malayalam

Chennai: Bus boards written in English/Tamil

Delhi: Bus boards written in Hindi/English

Kolkata: Bus boards written in Bengali

The facts are clear..You judge for yourself, which city has opened itself for others…

Common people in a globalised world with so many benefits with English, please absorb English…its given India the Economic push..You are able to gather so much knowledge/information with people all over the world..Dont restrict yourself to a Regional Language from the Global Perspective..in this case Hindi..
Embrace English and your local Language..The Rest can wait and can be learn’t later based on Necessity..

Hi All,

40% Indians speak Hindi, so hindi is declared as National Language. Now your qestion is it os only 40%, then why should other 60% people be forced to learn it !
Answer is: Take a scenario, When there are 3 parties, Party-1 has got 40% votes, party-2 got 30% & Party-3 got 30% votes, then who will be the ruler ?? Obviously Party-1. And now government (party-1) passes GOs (Gov Orders), 100% of the people should follow those.
It’s as simple as that. This is democracy. Things will always be done with the option of majority people’s choice and it may not be Ok for 100% of people.

To whoever spoken abt Const: Please don’t speak of constituency when you don’t know properly how the constituency will be amended for any new passes. It’s always done with the option of majority people’s choice.

All Tamilians: You always say you don’t need any other language to learn. It’s upto you till where you go unless it doesn’t effect others. But When you come to other states in India, don’t blame people bcoz they don’t know English or Tamil and you are not able to manage things there without any person (Friend) who knows Hindi.Obviously if you go to shops or Auto wala etc they can’t speak English for you. First you should blame yourself coz you didn’t learn Hindi. This is all reason there should be one common language in India for communication.

And when one is not able to learn depending on where he born & brought (one has given as Example abt kerala Village) it’s acceptable but when he comes to other places & there he feels it is necessary and he has a chance to learn, then try to learn Hindi.

But please don’t have a mindset like Tamil people to avoid a National Language intentionally.

Northis: You should not blame people in south who doesn’t know hindi when you are not able to manage your stay in south, bcoz Only educated people know Hindi there, you should try to cope up with them with others help. Obviously if Hindi not used in your native place how do you learn hindi. But if you stay in Hyderabad or Bangalore I don’t think you will find a language problem there bcoz most of the people (even Shop keepers & Auti waalas etc..) speak Hindi well there.

Thanks
Narasimha Reddy

Speech given by Nathuram Godse in his trial for killing Gandhi. Please do read it carefully and it will reveal to one and all who is the real fanatic and the concept of fanaticism.

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Born in a devotional Brahmin family, I instinctively came to revere Hindu religion, Hindu history and Hindu culture. I had, therefore, been intensely proud of Hinduism as a whole. As I grew up I developed a tendency to free thinking unfettered by any superstitious allegiance to any isms, political or religious. That is why I worked actively for the eradication of untouchability and the caste system based on birth alone. I openly joined anti-caste movements and maintained that all Hindus were of equal status as to rights, social and religious and should be considered high or low on merit alone and not through the accident of birth in a particular caste or profession. I used publicly to take part in organized anti-caste dinners in which thousands of Hindus, Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas, Chamars and Bhangis participated. We broke the caste rules and dined in the company of each other.

I have read the speeches and writings of Dadabhai Nairoji, Vivekanand, Gokhale, Tilak, along with the books of ancient and modern history of India and some prominent countries like England, France, America and’ Russia. Moreover I studied the tenets of Socialism and Marxism. But above all I studied very closely whatever Veer Savarkar and Gandhiji had written and spoken, as to my mind these two ideologies have contributed more to the moulding of the thought and action of the Indian people during the last thirty years or so, than any other single factor has done.

All this reading and thinking led me to believe it was my first duty to serve Hindudom and Hindus both as a patriot and as a world citizen. To secure the freedom and to safeguard the just interests of some thirty crores (300 million) of Hindus would automatically constitute the freedom and the well being of all India, one fifth of human race. This conviction led me naturally to devote myself to the Hindu Sanghtanist ideology and programme, which alone, I came to believe, could win and preserve the national independence of Hindustan, my Motherland, and enable her to render true service to humanity as well.

Since the year 1920, that is, after the demise of Lokamanya Tilak, Gandhiji’s influence in the Congress first increased and then became supreme. His activities for public awakening were phenomenal in their intensity and were reinforced by the slogan of truth and non-violence, which he paraded ostentatiously before the country. No sensible or enlightened person could object to those slogans. In fact there is nothing new or original in them. They are implicit in every constitutional public movement. But it is nothing but a mere dream if you imagine that the bulk of mankind is, or can ever become, capable of scrupulous adherence to these lofty principles in its normal life from day to day. In fact, honour, duty and love of one’s own kith and kin and country might often compel us to disregard non-violence and to use force. I could never conceive that an armed resistance to an aggression is unjust. I would consider it a religious and moral duty to resist and, if possible, to overpower such an enemy by use of force. [In the Ramayana] Rama killed Ravana in a tumultuous fight and relieved Sita. [In the Mahabharata], Krishna killed Kansa to end his wickedness; and Arjuna had to fight and slay quite a number of his friends and relations including the revered Bhishma because the latter was on the side of the aggressor. It is my firm belief that in dubbing Rama, Krishna and Arjuna as guilty of violence, the Mahatma betrayed a total ignorance of the springs of human action.

In more recent history, it was the heroic fight put up by Chhatrapati Shivaji that first checked and eventually destroyed the Muslim tyranny in India. It was absolutely essentially for Shivaji to overpower and kill an aggressive Afzal Khan, failing which he would have lost his own life. In condemning history’s towering warriors like Shivaji, Rana Pratap and Guru Gobind Singh as misguided patriots, Gandhiji has merely exposed his self-conceit. He was, paradoxical, as it may appear, a violent pacifist who brought untold calamities on the country in the name of truth and non-violence, while Rana Pratap, Shivaji and the Guru will remain enshrined in the hearts of their countrymen forever for the freedom they brought to them.

The accumulating provocation of thirty-two years, culminating in his last pro-Muslim fast, at last goaded me to the conclusion that the existence of Gandhi should be brought to an end immediately. Gandhi had done very well in South Africa to uphold the rights and well being of the Indian community there. But when he finally returned to India he developed a subjective mentality under which he alone was to be the final judge of what was right or wrong. If the country wanted his leadership, it had to accept his infallibility; if it did not, he would stand aloof from the Congress and carry on his own way. Against such an attitude there can be no halfway house. Either Congress had to surrender its will to his and had to be content with playing second fiddle to all his eccentricity, whimsicality, metaphysics and primitive vision, or it had to carry on without him. He alone was the Judge of everyone and everything; he was the master brain guiding the civil disobedience movement; no other could know the technique of that movement. He alone knew when to begin and when to withdraw it. The movement might succeed or fail, it might bring untold disaster and political reverses but that could make no difference to the Mahatma’s infallibility. ‘A Satyagrahi can never fail’ was his formula for declaring his own infallibility and nobody except himself knew what a Satyagrahi is.

Thus, the Mahatma became the judge and jury in his own cause. These childish insanities and obstinacies, coupled with a most severe austerity of life, ceaseless work and lofty character made Gandhi formidable and irresistible. Many people thought that his politics were irrational but they had either to withdraw from the Congress or place their intelligence at his feet to do with, as he liked. In a position of such absolute irresponsibility Gandhi was guilty of blunder after blunder, failure after failure, disaster after disaster.

Gandhi’s pro-Muslim policy is blatantly in his perverse attitude on the question of the national language of India. It is quite obvious that Hindi has the most prior claim to be accepted as the premier language. In the beginning of his career in India, Gandhi gave a great impetus to Hindi but as he found that the Muslims did not like it, he became a champion of what is called Hindustani. Everybody in India knows that there is no language called Hindustani; it has no grammar; it has no vocabulary. It is a mere dialect; it is spoken, but not written. It is a bastard tongue and crossbreed between Hindi and Urdu, and not even the Mahatma’s sophistry could make it popular. But in his desire to please the Muslims he insisted that Hindustani alone should be the national language of India. His blind followers, of course, supported him and the so-called hybrid language began to be used. The charm and purity of the Hindi language was to be prostituted to please the Muslims. All his experiments were at the expense of the Hindus.

From August 1946 onwards the private armies of the Muslim League began a massacre of the Hindus. The then Viceroy, Lord Wavell, though distressed at what was happening, would not use his powers under the Government of India Act of 1935 to prevent the rape, murder and arson. The Hindu blood began to flow from Bengal to Karachi with some retaliation by the Hindus. The Interim Government formed in September was sabotaged by its Muslim League members right from its inception, but the more they became disloyal and treasonable to the government of which they were a part, the greater was Gandhi’s infatuation for them. Lord Wavell had to resign as he could not bring about a settlement and he was succeeded by Lord Mountbatten. King Log was followed by King Stork.

The Congress, which had boasted of its nationalism and socialism, secretly accepted Pakistan literally at the point of the bayonet and abjectly surrendered to Jinnah. India was vivisected and one-third of the Indian territory became foreign land to us from August 15, 1947. Lord Mountbatten came to be described in Congress circles as the greatest Viceroy and Governor-General this country ever had. The official date for handing over power was fixed for June 30, 1948, but Mountbatten with his ruthless surgery gave us a gift of vivisected India ten months in advance. This is what Gandhi had achieved after thirty years of undisputed dictatorship and this is what Congress party calls ‘freedom’ and ‘peaceful transfer of power’. The Hindu-Muslim unity bubble was finally burst and a theocratic state was established with the consent of Nehru and his crowd and they have called ‘freedom won by them with sacrifice’ – whose sacrifice? When top leaders of Congress, with the consent of Gandhi, divided and tore the country – which we consider a deity of worship – my mind was filled with direful anger.

One of the conditions imposed by Gandhi for his breaking of the fast unto death related to the mosques in Delhi occupied by the Hindu refugees. But when Hindus in Pakistan were subjected to violent attacks he did not so much as utter a single word to protest and censure the Pakistan Government or the Muslims concerned. Gandhi was shrewd enough to know that while undertaking a fast unto death, had he imposed for its break some condition on the Muslims in Pakistan, there would have been found hardly any Muslims who could have shown some grief if the fast had ended in his death. It was for this reason that he purposely avoided imposing any condition on the Muslims. He was fully aware of from the experience that Jinnah was not at all perturbed or influenced by his fast and the Muslim League hardly attached any value to the inner voice of Gandhi.

Gandhi is being referred to as the Father of the Nation. But if that is so, he had failed his paternal duty inasmuch as he has acted very treacherously to the nation by his consenting to the partitioning of it. I stoutly maintain that Gandhi has failed in his duty. He has proved to be the Father of Pakistan. His inner-voice, his spiritual power and his doctrine of non-violence of which so much is made of, all crumbled before Jinnah’s iron will and proved to be powerless.

Briefly speaking, I thought to myself and foresaw I shall be totally ruined, and the only thing I could expect from the people would be nothing but hatred and that I shall have lost all my honour, even more valuable than my life, if I were to kill Gandhiji. But at the same time I felt that the Indian politics in the absence of Gandhiji would surely be proved practical, able to retaliate, and would be powerful with armed forces. No doubt, my own future would be totally ruined, but the nation would be saved from the inroads of Pakistan. People may even call me and dub me as devoid of any sense or foolish, but the nation would be free to follow the course founded on the reason which I consider to be necessary for sound nation-building. After having fully considered the question, I took the final decision in the matter, but I did not speak about it to anyone whatsoever. I took courage in both my hands and I did fire the shots at Gandhiji on 30th January 1948, on the prayer-grounds of Birla House.

I do say that my shots were fired at the person whose policy and action had brought rack and ruin and destruction to millions of Hindus. There was no legal machinery by which such an offender could be brought to book and for this reason I fired those fatal shots.

I bear no ill will towards anyone individually but I do say that I had no respect for the present government owing to their policy, which was unfairly favourable towards the Muslims. But at the same time I could clearly see that the policy was entirely due to the presence of Gandhi. I have to say with great regret that Prime Minister Nehru quite forgets that his preachings and deeds are at times at variances with each other when he talks about India as a secular state in season and out of season, because it is significant to note that Nehru has played a leading role in the establishment of the theocratic state of Pakistan, and his job was made easier by Gandhi’s persistent policy of appeasement towards the Muslims.

I now stand before the court to accept the full share of my responsibility for what I have done and the judge would, of course, pass against me such orders of sentence as may be considered proper. But I would like to add that I do not desire any mercy to be shown to me, nor do I wish that anyone else should beg for mercy on my behalf. My confidence about the moral side of my action has not been shaken even by the criticism levelled against it on all sides. I have no doubt that honest writers of history will weigh my act and find the true value thereof some day in future.

-NATHURAM GODSE

Every body is biased towards their own family,city,state,country … and so towards their language. You cant get anything by challenging these … India is biggest democratic country in the world, if you can understand what deocracy is then you will not be wasting time on all these things.

With such mixing a common language will emerge all across india in about 200-300 years. There wont be any regional langauges. Only Dialects. The common language will be called Hindi (as in language of Hind / India / Bharat), but will only be so in name. By then the language would have evolved beyond recognition with many many dialects. As i see it, each regional dialect of this future common langauge will have 4 substrati. The botton root layer will be formed by todays regional languages ( erstwhile regional languages if you look at it from the future). The second stratum will be of the dominant regional language of the area (again, erstwhile dominant regional languages if you look at it from the future). The third will be of sanskrit. And the fourth top layer will be of the influence history, neighbourhood factor and trade relations (ie. english, persian, arabic and chinese).

for example, The dialect of this future common language ( called hindi by name) spoken in kerala will have substratums of malayalam (todays regional language); tamil (todays dominant regional language of the area); sanskrit/hindi ( todays dominant language of the nation) and the historical & trade influence of (english, dutch, protugese, arabic, hebrew, latin etc).
Another example would be say assam. where the future tounge would be a mix of the local assomese/bodo, the dominant bengali in the area and hindi/sanskrit with influences from english, chinese, tibetian, etc.
All this depends on past, present and future events of population mix, match and migration.

But one thing is sure. A common tounge will evolve as the world gets more connected and smaller.

1. Hindi is not the national language but only the official language of India along with English according the constitution.

2a. Do you understand the difference between “most number of votes” and “majority vote”? Hindi is the mother tounge of only 40% of indians. So you cannot force it on the remaining 60%. Though the above mentioned 60% is split between non-hindi languages, the fact is that they are the bigger lot. (ie. tamil, malayalam, tulu, kannada, telugu, kodagu, marathi, gondi, munda, lambda, kuruk, oriya, bangla, manipuri, bodo, assomia, nepali, dogri, kashmiri, shina, punjabi, gujarati, kutchi, sindhi and konkani, urdu and sanskrit).

2b. So Yes, Hindi has the major share but NOT the majority share. For that more than 50% population should speak hindi as their mother tounge. Which is not the case as of today. So Hindi doesnt even have a case by democracy.

3. Now, if you consider the age, ease, richness and beauty of the language, then i will have to say Tamil, bengali, telugu and sanskrit are far far ahead than Hindi in those terms. Infact for that matter even malayalam which is an amazing belend of tamil and sanskrit is great, but is would loose out on the age factor.

4a. There are only two langauges which can truely be national in all senses. Sanskrit and English. ALL other indian languages are limited is some sense or the other, either my region, community or semantics/phonetics.

4b. Both the above have plus and minus. Sanskrit is the “one of the most” oldest languages of human civilization. Its grammar and structre is unparalled. It has the most unambigous syntax and semantics. Hence Paninian grammar is used in artificial intelligence/ real lanaguage processor applications. Sanskrit is a symbol of indias heritage and culture. It is common to all Indians. Even tamils. I say this not only because Tamil has sanskrit influence, but for the fact the the opposite is true too. Many do not know that there is a substratum of saskrit etymology which is dravidian. So just like tamil has taken loan words galore from sanskrit, sanskrit has a lot of root words which are dravidian.

Sanskrit is also advanced in many fields and has great literature wealth. But sanskrit is spoken only by megre numbers and I should say is complex. But it surely can be revived, like Hebrew. Look at it this way, atleast saskrit is live in some sense or the other and spoken by a few still. Hebrew wasnt even there at the end of WWII. It was put together by the jewish linguists by sewing together different semi-spoken versions from the jewish diaspora, based on the theoritical knowledge from their scriptures. If that could be done, then I am sure we can do a lot better with sanskrit. By making sanskrit the national language, we will give it the place it deserves. Please note, i just said national language, like a national symbol of our culture and heritage. just like our national bird, animal, etc. No force to use it officially. It can be one of the official lanaguages along with Hindi and English, to choose from by personal choice.

4c. English on the other hand is easy, already popular in India and around the world. It is advanced and very agile and growing in vocabulary by adopting and adapting. I hardly need to say anymore about English as we all know its place in our lives. But the fact remains that it is a foreign language and not indian at all. It also is the leftover of a colonial era. We can surely make English the national language, but iam sure even those indians who speak english at home like the anglo-indians and the many metrosexual angrez-ki-aulats will have a consience bite doing so.

5. Though Hindi is very popular all over india and is increasingly understood by 70% of indians though not spoken by, I still have to rule it out for national language. But i surely agree that it should continue to be the official language of the Union government along with English as it is today. It will be a link langauge amoung officialdom and amoung the military. Hindi thus surely has a role to play in integration. Nothing more is needed.

MY SOLUTION:
Sanskrit – National Language, as a respect to our culture and heritage.
Hindi and English – Official languages of the Union, link language for Union-State, State-to-State and Military communication.
Regional Laguages, Hindi and English – Offical langauges for their respective states. States may choose as they wish.
Regional language and English – medium of education for primary and higher education.

Finally, if you desire one national language which can assimilate and resonate better with all Bharatiyas, it is Samskritam. I recognise potential resistance to this by certain citizens who associate Samskrtam to Hindu religion etc etc. To such people, I say that Samskritam is beyond religion as it was used by non-hindus in the bygone eras. Well… it should be remembered that Bharatiyas who under force, converted to other religions and adopted other cultures we originally Bharatiyas long before invasions. So, they are very much our brothers and sisters. Hence, they should also give up cultural slavery of our invaders and take steps to learn Samskritam. If all this happens, only then can we have ONE National Language. Thanks for your time to read this.

Hindi if at all spreads only based on the law of convenience i.e because it is closely related to some Indian languages. It will even create a situation that will bring it to conflict with UN and other intenational principles. National integration based on mutual respect and not one half always trying to destroy the other half. Unity in diversity ! That is what India is about !

Here is my answer for it:
http://www.unitingindia.blogspot.com/