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Relevance of English language in India

 India is a continent trying to behave like a country. It could have been a reality if our history took a different turn. Imagine Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and all other states of today being different countries...DIFFERENT COUNTRIES! Imagine for a moment that this is a reality. How would it be? Very similar or different in comparison between two people from two nations say Vietnam and Sri Lanka talking to each other. Which language would they use? It could have been a possibility had we not been brought under the colonization umbrella of British colonialism. Let us now come to the present. We have Twenty-eight states +union territories. We have 23 official languages and many more dialects. A total of more than fifty-five different mother tongues and languages can be a real challenge for the country to have a common link language.  What should be the National Language of India? Should it be Hindi? What would be the justification for Hindi?... A lan...