Do Not Ignore Mother Tongues

I was reading an article today on HubPages that enumerated Hindi Names for 20 professional occupations. He provided the English Names with their corresponding Hindi Names. I was amusing myself while going through it. He had some more articles that dealt with Flower Names, Fruits, Metals, etc.

Do you know that a postman is called "daakiya" in Hindi. I think that most people might have forgot their touch with mother tongues. It is the same case with Telugu and other languages also. Indians are turning western as more and more people put their children in English medium schools that do not teach Indian languages.

Here is the link to the above-mentioned article.

Further comments on "English edge"

My reply to a response by a reader on my previous comment on this topic published in Times of India Dated 5/1/2014 at 5:30 pm.

	Readers comment on the article ''English edge: Those who speak the language fluently ‘earn 34% more than others’'' : There's no national language in India...Hindi and English are the official languages. My Reply:
	''Hindi is treated as our national language as majority of people know and speak in Hindi. So, I think Hindi should also be learnt by Indians''
	Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
	Regards,
	Team TOI

A Comment on Hindi as our national language

My reply to a comment by a reader on National language of India in response to my previous comment on English edge over other languages published in Economic Times dated 5/01/2014 at 11 am.

Soni.deepesh: There's no national language in India...Hindi and English are the official languages.

My Reply:
Hindi is treated as our national language as majority of people know and speak in Hindi. So, I think Hindi should also be learnt by Indians

A Comment on English edge over other languages

	Your comment on the article ''English edge: Those who speak the language fluently ‘earn 34% more than others’'' is now displayed on timesofindia.com Dated 5/01/2014 at 10:36 am.
	''It is true that English has edge over other languages because of being the multi-national language. One should definitely learn English. But at the same time, one's own mother tongue and his own national language are also to be learnt properly. We should not leave our own culture. We must learn to respect our own heritage and language and literature.''
	Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
	Regards,
	Team TOI