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Originally Posted by appserver
English for equality, in India? Now this scares me. Gautham, all metropolitan cities are just small part of India. Come out of that and think about villagers who are living most places in our country. To do agriculture, petty businesses their native language is more than enough.
Now considering the rest, I have seen many people complaining that they can't speak in English fluently and this has caused inferiority complex among the rest. English is an universal language, learning is a must, but using in India?
Yes there should be one common language in India, but why English? We have more than 100 languages already, making one of it as a common would be more sensible. Germany,France, Norway, Japan, China or Spain is not using English. They don't bother either..
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I was just giving you an example.
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The reason is that we rate English speaking people as superior, we love fair-skinned people and we do confuse between skin colour and the intellectualism. Yes, apparently we are racist! 
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Thats dumb ideology. Who rates english speaking people as superior ?
The one and only reason I speak english is because a majority of people on earth speak it and it allows me to connect with all those. AND because its the easiest language to type on a keyboard. AND because I'm more comfortable with it than anything else.
Now lets replace it with something like Tamil. The only people I will be able to speak to are several million tamilians. Unlike the few billion I get to speak by learning english.
But enforcing one language on others sucks because that removes freedom of expression. The government has no right to do this.
But on the other hand, its perfectly legal to have PRIVATE hospitals enforcing english as a condition for employment, convents and madarasas enforcing christianity and islam respectively as religions, etc because these are designed for particular classes of people.
If you want freedom of speaking any language in the hospital you work in, either join a different hospital or start your own. Simple as that.