At first glance, this looks like a ridiculous demand. It's probably because you're only looking at the second option. That's because you're conditioned to think Hindi signs deserve to be included in everything we do. https://twitter.com/anna_isaac/status/1298937410730905600

That's because we've seen the central government give undue importance to Hindi for the longest time. Look at the "Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha". It's a central university and an "institution of national importance".

https://www.dbhpscentral.org/introduction.html

Also, Bollywood. For a proud Marathi state, Maharashtra has done more to promote Hindi than any other state. Things are changing now, of course. But Hindi has always had an advantage over other languages.

One more thing. Languages are learnt for their utility. If I'm in Bangalore, and I want to get things done, I'll learn the local language to communicate better. It just doesn't make sense for it to be the other way around.

English connects me to the rest of the world. It opens up jobs for me not just in India but elsewhere as well. How many countries or companies use Hindi as their official language? I work for a French company. Their official language? US English.

My mother tongue connects me to my roots. I don't speak it well. But it helps me stay in touch with family. Of course, I've picked up other languages but that's purely because of their utility to me and not based on some misplaced sense of pride.

With technology smashing boundaries, we will soon reach a situation where real-time translation would be possible. When that happens, we won't need a link-language. So, the argument of having Hindi as a link-language is also bogus and will be outdated soon.

We're a heterogeneous country. We work well as a diverse country. As a smart, young country, we need to look at things like languages more for their utility than anything else. Yes, learning languages is a good thing. Reading literature in its original language is great.

We do need to preserve these things as they give us a link to our past. Our past has a lot of valuable lessons for us. I'm not denying any of this. But if we are to make giant strides into the future, let us focus on tangible improvements to our society.

Instead of focusing on the medium of instruction, let's focus on the lesson, and let's focus on teaching it well.

TL/DR: Hindi needs to fuck off.

So much threadings I put, nobody reads it only. Hehe.