Thread by @HinduMonarchist

I have said this earlier and will do so again:
Our country India has achieved independence from the British since 1947, but English still plays a big role in our life.
Why is that?
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First of all, there is no one, uniform Indian culture. Our country is a mixture of cultures, where each culture has its own language. We have Marathi, Hindi, Tamil, Telegu, Bengali, Malayalam, Kannada, Mizo, Meitei, Kashmiri and all their dialects.
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Many people hail the fact that despite this diversity, we are still United. But then how do people from two cultures who can't speak each other's language communicate? Through English ofcourse. A man from Maharashtra who knows Marathi won't be able to communicate
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with a man from Tamil Nadu who knows Tamil, unless both of them know English. I'm talking about people who haven't left their states.

We need to look at the reality. We definitely need a common language to help us communicate.

But why English?
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Why should a foreign language imposed by people who enslaved us for more than two centuries unite us?

Why can't we have a common language from our own languages, so that we can kick out the colonial influence on our linguistics out of India?
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Having agreed that we need a common language, I wish Sanskrit to be a fit candidate for this honour.

I have excellent reasons for my proposal. When we say we need a common language which will no doubt, also serve as the national language of India, we want a
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language which no culture can claim as its own, but which is purely Indian by origin. We do not wish to promote the language of one community and do injustice thereby to other communities. Marathi is the cultural language of Maharashtrians, Tamil of Tamilians,
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Malayalam of Keralites, Hindi of North Indians, Kannada of Karnataka people, Telegu of the people of Andhra Pradesh & Telangana, Bengali of Bengalis, Punjabi of Punjabis, Mizo of the Mizos, Meitei of the Manipuris, Kashmiri of the Kashmiris and many more. Since all
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these languages are connected to a particular culture, we cannot propose any of them as the national language if we want to give them equal treatment and like I said earlier, we cannot promote one culture and leave out others, which would be injustice. On the other
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hand, there is no culture which can claim Sanskrit to be their cultural language or state language, except if you think on religious lines. But having said that, let us think on religious lines too. For the sake of this, let us consider that Sanskrit is the
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language of Hinduism, Urdu/Arabic of Islam and maybe English of Christianity.

Like I said earlier, we need a language which is fully Indian. I have given my reasons why I don't consider English in the very first tweet of this thread, and for the same reasons, do I
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not consider Urdu or Arabic. One is a foreign language (Arabic) while one has foreign influence of Persian and Arabic (Urdu). Enough with thinking on religious lines. Sanskrit is purely a part of Indian culture and like I said earlier, it is not a part of any
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particular Indian community and India being a secular country, I don't wish to bring the religious factor into account. I have thus given my reasons on why should Sanskrit be our national language.

But one question is still there. Sanskrit is not used for
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communication. How will it help to have it as the national language?

Sanskrit is not used for day to day communication because very few people know that language. Very few people know Sanskrit simply because it is not promoted and taught properly in our country.
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But then Indians are already familiar with a particular language (no matter which). Why to cause inconvenience by making a sudden change like this?

As a solution to this, we must start with our latest generation. Let Sanskrit be the primary medium in our schools.
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Let our latest generation grow up primarily learning Sanskrit. Since kids don't know any language properly, such a move will not cause that much inconvenience to them.

But will it not be "Language imposition"?

To say the truth, every language is imposed. Language
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imposition is not bad. Language imposition is required to teach a language.consider English medium students. We learnt English since our elementary days and also a regional language. Did anyone ask us or our parents whether we wish to learn the language or not?
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If no, how is it any different from language imposition. But in case the "Language Imposition" hadn't occured, would we have learnt these languages? No. So, language imposition is not bad as it is rumoured to be.

But then, what about our regional languages?
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Should we reject them and allow them to die out in the face of Sanskrit?

HELL NO! The idea behind promoting Sanskrit is not to sideline other languages, but to have something common between all of us as Indians. In our schools, almost all of us study atleast two
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languages. English (if you are in English medium) and some other (usually a regional language). My proposal is that let Sanskrit take the place of English and let the regional languages retain their position. Let English medium be replaced by Sanskrit medium
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(where Sanskrit is the first language of instruction and the regional language is the second language). Both the languages should swap their roles in a regional language-medium. In both media, let English be the third language of instruction like how Hindi is
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taught in English medium schools in Bombay. I cannot propose the idea of doing away with English completely, because many of our students, either in pursuit of Employment or higher studies, go to foreign countries and they will no doubt, face a lot of inconvinience
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if they lack English communication skills. But we must surely do away with the unfair importance English holds in our Country.

Why did I write my post in English?

I wanted every Indian to read my message. If I had typed in Marathi, it would have been tough for
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non-Maharashtrians to understand me. If I had typed in Hindi, many non-Hindi speaking culture's such as South Indians and NorthEast Indians would have had difficulty understanding me. As regards Sanskrit, I'm still teaching myself Sanskrit and I haven't completed
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the basics yet. This post was too much for me to type in Sanskrit. Even if I could, what was the point? Who would understand what I would have written? I don't want a select minority to read this.

If you wish to comment on my post, you're free to do so

Thank you!
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