Unsatisfied with foisting Hindi upon people, the chief minister of BJP -ruled Delhi last week declared Sanskrit—spoken natively by roughly zero people—as the language of the future.

India allocates $1.169 million to promote Hindi promotion at the United Nations, highlighting its cultural and linguistic significance on the global stage.

States worry that the imposition of Hindi, the main language of northern India, would wipe out their cultural heritage.

Second, as the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution recognises 22 official languages, the country should celebrate Indian Languages Day, and not Hindi Diwas, on September 14.