Comments by "" (@shamrock141) on "How India runs the world's biggest election" video.
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@samwinchester7844 as I have already stated the use of those langauges is highly *regionalised*. The "central government" as you would call it only broadcasts in English and Hindi as well as most documents. You can call it official but what it really is, is regional. The UK for example only has English as their official language but state governments also release documents in Welsh, Scottish and Irish depending on where you are. Those langauges are regional langauges. In practice India only has two official languages, Hindi and English, it's not different from most nations in the international community in this regard
As for my "entitlement" that Indians need to know Hindi or English to survive, no they don't, nor did I insinuate that. Indians do however need to be able to speak either of those langauges if they want to thrive, because thriving requires trade, and trade requires language. As for "a language is just a language, just a means for communication" that's wrong, a language isn't a means for communication if no one else speaks it. There's a reason English is a much more valuable language to know than Latin
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