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NATION MUST ACCEPT A NATIONAL LANGUAGE

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Mukesh Devrari Can Hindi be our national language? Sometimes people in North India wonder whether South Indians especially people in Tamil Nadu hate Hindi because of their love for their mother tongue or their hatred for Hindi is based on their new found love for English. During the raj, British experts on South Asia used to teach newly recruited civil servants before deploying them on actual service that India is not a country. It is a loosely tied nation which could exist as one unit only because of the British Empire. Tamil Nadu and Himanchal Pradesh are more different from each other than Poland and Britain.  India is ethnically and linguistically more diverse than Europe. Chinese still believe India is not a nation. It is too diverse to be a nation and loosely tied by the Hindu religion.   English became the Trojan horse for India, initially, it was gifted but its actual purpose was to destroy India culturally. If India has any culture at all. There is no point