All Indians should know HINDI...?

Hi Siliguri, Great Idea Indeed but not going to happen in my lifetime...maybe in next life It wont happen until we consider ourselves bihari, rajasthani, punjabi, marathi, tamil, telegu and so on first and not Indians or Bharatiya first

You are correct. If u know Hindi you can survive in any part of India.If u know English u can survive any part of the world outside India.

I'm not sure what to make of it. I know Hindi is the official language. I can read, write and speak Hindi quite well despite being a South Indian and raised outside the country. My husband knows Hindi and is able to speak to our son but is not comfortable speaking it (he tries when it's necessary, though). He speaks Kannada like a local (we are not from Karnataka). So, it's not like he cannot pick up new languages and Kannada is needed more where we live than Hindi. I feel that most Indians are comfortable in English and it's easier for the South Indians (who don't know Hindi) to communicate in English rather than Hindi. Just my opinion. I'm not asking English to be made official language or anything...but that looks like the most common language used by Indians besides their mother tongue.

I agree it is very important to know your national language because you are being represented by your nation. In South India people hardly speak in hindi because they are not taught about it. They rather communicate in their regional language or english. So importance should be given to hindi right from the school. But at the same time they are very patriotic so communication is far beyond languages. This is what I feel dear.

Hello Siliguri, I think Hindi is teaching as compulsory in all schools in Indian except one particular state. Hindi is the national language of India that is the reason for making Hindi as compulsory subject in schools. Hindi is very easy to learn, it may be one the reason for making the same as our national language. I agree south Indians are not able to speak Hindi fluently but they can read and write the language well. Now a days Hindi films are very popular in south India so many are able to understand Hindi well. Learning a new language is always good, I think.

Hindi is the national language of India. This alone doesn't mean that we all should speak in Hindi. However more than 50% of Indians speak in Hindi. Most of the rest understands Hindi quite well. People who doesn't speak Hindi is because of their territorial attitude. They unconsciously put psychological resistance against this language. I am Bengali and I personally feel that to do business in West Bengal one has to learn to talk in Bengali. But this is is not a valid claim at all. Since Hindi is our national language, all the people are free to use it as a medium of business. I talked to many from South India. They feel that their language has been overlooked and disrespected. Among all the Indians they are the ones who hate Hindi the most. However, when I speak to people who don't speak Bengali, I prefer to speak in English.

Why should I learn Hindi.Tamizh is my mother tongue,and I know English, which is enough. Why should Hindi be the national language, why cant Tamil, Telugu or Malayalam, be the national language. It is because of people like you, we do not have a national unity. Even in an International site, you show your chuvanism. You are making a point also about South Indians not knowing Hindi, we are proud of our language, and we need not learn any other language. Finally for your kind information it is Bengali and Telugu, which is the language spoken by the maximum number of people in India. Lastly do not bring these kind of discussions in an international forum, and show our disunity to the world.

Dear friend, Yes Hindi is nice language and also it is consider as national language of India. But I could see in law order almost all rules are written in English in India. A nation with Hindustani culture with "Paradeshi" law. I do not know why those law not written in Hindi, may be English has become compelled to learn to go further. Hindi is beautiful language, may be it has to be spread all over world.

We can't make it mandatory unless all of the state politicians agree with it. Unfortunately, they like to make it a sensational issue and seek their own growth alone. But still, do you think all the north Indians speak Hindi. They too have separate language to different states like bengali or marathi.

For me it is must because they want to have no erase of there culture.

I too used to think that way.But I wonder why would a person from south india learn hindi at all.I live in kerala and i never had to speak with anyone in hindi. It is good only if one goes to north india.When you live in a hindi speaking area you can easily learn that language,because all the indian languages are connected to hindi. But if you are never going to a place where they speak hindi ,what is the point in learning that. Already we learn englsih as a second language at school.Now south indians have to learn 3 languages!

Hello siliguri, If my memory is good, French is the official language in my country since 1532, but it was spoken only by the bureaucracy and a few persons before the first world war here. I am still bilingual : my mother told me her local language, and I feel really rich to know it. You know, it is great when every body speaks the same language in a country, but it is also great to not loose our traditions, cultures and native languages : it is the diversity that makes great countries, not the uniformity.

I don't agree with that. Yes, it is very good if you can speak Hindi, but I don't think it is necessary. I am Indian, I don't speak Hindi. And I am not ashamed of that fact. India is a big country with different cultures and languages. In fact, Hindi is just one of the 14 National Languages. Why make only Hindi mandatory? What about the other 13 languages? It is impractical to suggest that Hindi should be made mandatory.

Hindi is our national language,but in my state [Tamilnadu] most people don't know Hindi.Me too ,but I am trying to learn it,not only because of our national language,I like Hindi films and its good to know a new language too.But schools have Hindi only in some classes as third language and its not necessary to study in most schools.We can respect our national language ,but i think its not compulsory to learn it,