There has always been a great deal of controversy about the status of English in India. Some favour it as the common national language while others want its use to be banned completely. Write an article for your school magazine, giving your views on the topic.
Ans:- THE PLACE OF ENGLISH IN INDIA
English has remained with us so long that now it has become a part, and parcel of our daily life. It is such an inexhaustible treasure of knowledge that we will only impoverish ourselves if we decide to go without it. The slogans against English are coined by those who are narrow-minded and pseudo-nationalists. By their diseased thinking, they are doing more harm than good to the nation. It is advocated by the Hindi zealots that the use of English should be banned in India. All education in schools and colleges should be given through the medium of the national language. And if one says that no good books on science or technology are available in Hindi, they say that we should translate the available English books into the national language. They forget that by the time we translate one book into Hindi, ten new are published and our work shall never be completed. We shall merely turn ourselves into a nation of translators. It would be ridiculous to translate all the scientific and technical terms into the Hindi language. However, all this is not to suggest that pride of place in India should go to the English language. We must honour our national language and take all the steps for its development. All work, as far as possible. Should be done in national and regional languages. But we should have no prejudice against the English language if we are not to deprive ourselves of the latest developments in the field of science and technology.
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