A Closer Look at India’s languages (Infographic), Credit: daytranslations.com The compulsory imposition of Hindi in schools under the draft National Education Policy (NEP) 2019 displeased non-Hindi speaking states like Tamil Nadu. After much backlash the clause was revised to make it non-mandatory. This was not the first time in the independence history of India that the issue of languages has arisen. It arose in the past, it will arise in the future. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND India has a rich heritage in terms of languages and every language spoken, even by the most remote areas, is respected by the Constitution. “History demonstrates that, from times immemorial, India has been a multilingual country, each language having a certain region in which it was supreme, but none of these regions truly constituted unilingual kingdom or principality.” In ancient India, Sanskrit was most prevailing language by the 'elites' and Pali was the medium of communication for 'lo...