As someone from the Hindi belt, I feel like our language gets treated as a burden to 'impose' rather than what it actually is -- the language most Indians already share and understand, and promoting it as a link could finally help us talk to each other across state lines.
The three-language formula India adopted back in 1968 already lets states choose their own second and third languages specifically because forcing one common link language onto every state was politically and pedagogically rejected then, and the same regional pushback, like Tamil Nadu's decades of anti-Hindi-imposition politics, remains a live reality today.
Is it okay for Indian parents to choose their children's career and spouse?
Is caste-based reservation system still necessary in modern India?
