“Is De-Englishization necessary for Bharat?”, uttisthabharata.substack, 16 Aug 2026.
“The irony that this article itself is written in English!
Anybody in Bharat with basic modern education is introduced to English during their early years. In our country, modern education has now become equivalent to English.
Children studying in native-language schools are subconsciously labelled as backward in our minds. Isn’t this the case?
Have you ever noticed that English has become an integral part of our life? From the government work to everyday sentences.
Unfortunately, most of the Bharatiyas cannot finish even a single medium-length sentence while speaking their mother tongue without taking excessive loan-words, or sometimes whole sentences from English.
Suppose there are two people, say one from the state of Rajasthan and another from Keralam, what do you assume their medium for conversation would be .
Most probably they would use English……..”
Read the full article at uttisthabharata.substack.
For those who mind, I used “Pahari languages”, but more accurately it should be Pahāṛī languages or pahāṛī bhāṣāe~ (पहाड़ी भाषाएँ) , or pahāṛī bhāṣāeṅ!
Author Ansh K. says:
“The word forming ability of Sanskrit is so strong that academic content in any foreign language can be translated completely to it without much headache. This cannot be done with Hindi or any other language as they lack the word forming ability of Sanskrit and would end up transliterating.”
Ansh should have provided examples to prove his points. Sanskrit is the genetic ancestor of Hindi and many other languages, and technical words in Hindi can easily be Sanskrit based, so this point does not make sense. But no amount of word forming can induce people to use such words.
Just because Government of India or it’s Census clubs Pahari languages as Hindi dialects, does not mean that they are, and in western academia they are not treated as such.
Sanskrit and it’s genetic descendants like Hindi, Punjabi have Proto-Indo-Aryan roots, Tamil has Proto-Tamil and many northeast languages have Sino-Tibetan -> Tibeto-Burman roots, besides various others with different roots like AustroAsiatic Munda, so neither Hindi nor Sanskrit nor Tamil can be imposed on Indian people.
All Indian languages are going through rapid attrition and you cannot blame Coloniality or any other convenient monster for our own weaknesses. Blaming is escapism. We used Farsi for new law and court nomenclatures before that, not “easy” word forming capability of Sanskrit. Hinglish speakers increasingly not only are unable to recall several ordinary Hindi equivalents of English words they use, but feel ashamed inside to use any word that has Sanskrit roots they already know, and feel mainstream, smart and sophisticated to use English equivalents. Who would say “उपयोग” instead of “use” or “फल” for “fruit”? Would you use “आपण” for “दुकान” or “shop”? Language attrition cannot be stopped.
What can still be done though is to teach our languages and their scripts in a more logical and practical way. For example our alphabets वर्णमाला are very much phonetically logical and phonetically arranged, but our teaching them is deliberately gutter level, because we think that we are “practical” and “smart” by not being “pedantic”. We don’t teach our languages in schools etymologically. Similarly, we never use diacritics or IAST to write Hindi or other language words in romanised form, in fact we corrupt our own language pronunciation like ण, ड़, ळ, etc. to English alphabet limitations and feel so smart! Most people nowadays pronounce “अरुण” as “अरुन” for example. We have zero cultural motivation to use existing diacritics. Throw all blame on British colonizers?