Mumbai, March 15 -- Arecent World Economic Forum report on the benefits of being multilingual (https://bit.ly/2EX3L3W) pointed out that on the internet, English is still the most commonly used language in the world. At 25.4%, its usage is ahead of that of Chinese, which is used by 19.3% of netizens. Both are way ahead of third-placed Spanish, which is used by just 8.1% of the people on the internet. That closely follows the pattern in the offline world, while also adhering to the pecking order of global markets by size. In any case, Mandarin, which is the possible challenger to English, is centred largely in China, Singapore, and Hong Kong, and even among these, English is the national language in the last two. Indeed, for hundreds of years...