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The longer way or the easier way?

Everything around us has taken a huge turn in the past one decade, from love and connectivity to knowledge and wisdom we are quick in getting them all. The quick here is just a button or just a click away. Something more which has entered the list of getting it quick along with the other things is fame and success! The good that has come with the quick way is that we have moved a lot ahead in terms of technology, we have opened the doors for many such things which were previously just a dream, but the bad is that we have become a lot more impatient for everything, we just don’t want to wait for anything at all. For instance, we are not bothered sending handwritten letters which may take a couple of days to reach someone, when the option to make a video call is now available! And sadly we are not bothered to wait and refine ourselves more, struggle more and learn more when fame followed by success is also just a click away? There is a big question that arises here; in today’s time a

English? Hindi? Regional? Which language do you prefer to speak?

With such a diverse culture that exists in India, which is so beautiful, we also have a lot of spoken languages. While the total number of languages that are spoken in our country are enlisted as twenty-two, Hindi and English remain the official languages. It was Hindi that was stated as the only official language originally until the amendments in the constitution introduced the usage of English, which is thus continuing till date as the second official language. But despite the stated facts, we have our own sentiments for languages which run separately in each one of us. From the debates on which language should be the National language of the country to the mandatory use of a regional language if someone from one state stays in another, we can go on and on about this topic. Keeping the regional languages aside while some of us are pro-Hindi with all our heart and soul, the rest remain pro-English in terms of speaking and of course in terms of being grammatically correct all the ti