India, March 11 -- Sir,

Appreciate your thought when you said 'Let not a language tear asunder a united Bharat' (Abracadabra by K.B. Ganapathy in SOM dated Mar. 4, 2025). But, in the larger context in today's India, we witness that language, religion, caste, creed, and cultures play a pivotal role especially for our power-hungry politicians who constantly play mind games to win an election.

Now the question of accepting Hindi as a national language is disputed by citizens. The truth is Hindi has not been declared a national language, but has been made a mandatory language under National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. From August 1947, Hindi and English have been accepted as link languages for communication and it continues in the same pos...