The Many may be the languages---but they are the children of the same mother says Brinda....... why any needless special status to any particular language? she questions... Hindi is to be made the official language of United Nations says Indian express in an article.

But why? Hindi is certainly not a representative of Indian languages. That is the beauty of India. There is no single language spoken by everybody. Even if you go down to interior Gujarat, people can't speak Hindi. Then why do these Delhi babus keep trying to project Hindi as the sole language of India. Bengali has the biggest diaspora in the world. Why not make that as the UN language? Tamil is being researched in many European and American universities. Why not advocate Tamil? Sanskrit is the mother of all languages. Why not make that official? At least, it will encourage the current generation to learn Sanskrit, our literary wealth. 

I would like to tell our Delhi politicians...Stop pushing Hindi down our throats. Travel away from central India. You will find that lesser and lesser people speak Hindi. By the way, do you ever include the north eastern people in any of your discussions? Some of the leftists might argue that English is the language of the world. This certainly does not warrant the slow demise of the rest of the vernaculars. What I would really like to see is an equal importance given to all our Indian languages by the Indian government. Certainly none is inferior to the other. When the rest of the world can realise the beauty of our languages and research on them, why can't we value it? Texas university offers a PhD encompassing Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu, Tamil, and Malayalam. It certainly did not pick just Hindi alone as a ideal representative.

Cologne university has a big Indology department dealing with Tamil research and Vedic studies. Harvard University has a department of Sanskrit and Indian studies. Even Japan's Kyoto-yoto university has a department for Indological studies. You wouldn't believe that in the modern glamorous Florida there is a Vedic college.. In my current home UK, there is the Oxford center for Hindu studies. So, while a few half literate Delhi politicians are claiming Hindi to represent the entire India, the westerners are researching all our languages and thus preserving its purity. It is such a shame that we Indians hardly realise this. Just as south Indians are taught Hindi, north Indians should be taught a south Indian language. All Indian languages are like children of the same mother. They are individualistic yet, they are stronger collectively. It is scientifically proven that when children learn more than one language, their intelligence grows. Indians have plenty of opportunity to learn as many languages as they please from their own country. It would encourage the next generation to take year off from their studies traveling all over India, experiencing the rich culture India has to offer. Will my dream come true?