English is Key to Keeping India United

Proposed switch to Hindi a ploy to marginalize Muslims

By: Viswa Nathan

As if India weren’t short of controversies, the country’s home minister, Amit Shah, reignited one recently, saying he wants Indians of different mother tongues to communicate in Hindi, not in English, as they do now.

Immediately, challenges began thundering across the country. In the eastern state of West Bengal, where Bengali is the moth…