Hindi unites India across state lines and reflects our shared heritage—it's the mother tongue of hundreds of millions of Indians. Pushing regional languages at the expense of a national link language fragments the country and makes it harder for Indians from different regions to communicate in government, business, and higher education. English as the default just deepens our colonial hangover and excludes millions of Hindi speakers who've never had the chance to learn it well.
Forcing Hindi on Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and other southern states that have thriving literary traditions is linguistic imperialism, not unity—it's why anti-Hindi sentiment has never died in the south. Regional languages *are* India's identity; we should strengthen them instead of treating them as second-class. If anything, strengthening English and regional languages while letting Hindi grow organically, without state pressure, would be fairer and less resentful than a top-down push that feels like Hindi speakers dominating the rest of us.
