TIL Desk/National/Varanasi/ Hindi is a friend of all indigenous languages and India’s prosperity lies in the prosperity of all its languages, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Saturday. Addressing the All-India Rajbhasha conference here, Shah also said a country that cannot preserve its languages, cannot preserve its culture and organic thought process either.
Thus, he said, it is very important for everyone to preserve and nurture India’s all languages. ”Hindi is the friend (sakhee) of all indigenous languages (swabhasha). India’s prosperity lies in the prosperity of our Indian languages,” he said. The home minister said a sense of inferiority complex was instilled in the minds of some children who couldn’t speak English.
Shah said it is his firm belief that the time is not far when those who cannot speak their mother tongue will feel inferiority complex. The home minister said once the people of the country decide and its languages become the language of the governance, India will automatically get back the knowledge trove of Maharishi Patanjali and Panini. He said there is a need to rid youths of the inferiority complex instilled during British rule.
