Hindi belongs to the natives of the northern states.

Accepting Hindi over local tongues, automatically devalues the local tongues.
As Hindi is not special, its just a local tongue of the north.

Why should one groups local tongue be used as the language of the entire nation.
That in itself is discriminatory.

English, isnt a local tongue, nor is it an Indian language, therefore neutral.

For that better ask the Government of India and the authors of the constitution of the Republic of India... before criticizing the Indian Constitution...

That is not a valid reason to call Hindi speaking people as "Bhaiyas" and abuse the people of the entire northern belt and central India...

Such comments at the time of the 60th Republic Day of India are indecent and narrow...

Truly, Hindi is the official language of the Union and is also official languages of many states. Thus Hindi is very important link between different regions. However, there is no language declared as 'National'. Harish very aptly says that there should be no insulting and absurd words used against any community. It is very annoying and undesirable to describe Hindi speaking as 'Bhaiyya'. Thus they may also describe south Indians as 'Lungi walah'. There is no end to it. Languages are for unity through communication and not for dividing people.

Its a tendency of people to form groups n then after a group is formed they will form some opinions which will be spread by that group. And our govt. takes advantage of this thing to rule that group.Same thing is happening with Tamilnadu. Central govt. is not very keen on this,as it want to please everybody. Now tell me,Even English is a Foreign Language no,then y r all the Tamilians learning English without making any bugaboo of sons of soil n language imposition. Becoz if u ll not learn English,nobody is gonna give u a job worth 3k per month also.... Isn't it a fact? But in other parts of our country INDIA,this is not the case,even if u don't know that much English u can get a good job,provided u speak good Hindi and your local language. Achcha ek aur baat,Which is India's no. 1 News Channel? Answer: AAJ TAK,which is a HINDI news Channel,kyunki 75% population of INDIA knows HINDI.N Which is the second biggest Film Industry in World,obviously HINDI FILM INDUSTRY. Now after knowing all this if somebody wants to be a minority member of not knowing HINDI-INDIA's Official Language,then God also can't help them....

This was a very good thread started in initial stage...
Yet "Bhaiyas" word has played all the trouble... (hurting feelings of a majority population of India)

In addition the following statement shows a different picture of the thread:

I quote...
"Hindi belongs to the natives of the northern states.

Accepting Hindi over local tongues, automatically devalues the local tongues.
As Hindi is not special, its just a local tongue of the north.

Why should one groups local tongue be used as the language of the entire nation.
That in itself is discriminatory.

English, isnt a local tongue, nor is it an Indian language, therefore neutral." ...unquote.

The Constitution of India came into existence on January 26, 1950. It said that Hindi and English would be the "official languages" of the Central government of India till 1965 (for a period of 15 years); subsequently, Hindi was expected to become the sole "national and official language" of India. This applied to Central as well as State governments. Hindi and English became the "official languages" in every department controlled by the Central government. This explains why Hindi is prominent in the Indian Railways, the nationalised banks, etc, which come under the purview of the Central government.

As January 26, 1965 neared, some in the non-Hindi belt, particularly the Tamils, started voicing their apprehensions openly. The idea of making Hindi the sole national language was blasphemous to the students as it involved the simultaneous and complete withdrawal of English, even as a medium for competitive examinations for jobs and education! This meant that the northern region would bag government jobs and dominate the field of education, given the proficiency in Hindi of the people of the region. Since government jobs were the most sought after in the pre-1991 era, the measure was seen as an indirect attempt to deny jobs to the English-educated South Indians. The non-Hindi-speaking people from South India feared that they would be discriminated against in government employment and in other possible ways. Between 1948 and 1961, on an average, every year, close to 24% of Central government officials had been selected from the State of Madras (the present-day Tamil Nadu). Uttar Pradesh came second best, accounting for about 16%.

The 1940s, 1950s and the first half of the 1960s witnessed many anti-Hindi pro-tests in the form of public meetings, marches, hunger strikes and demonstrations before schools and Central government offices; black flag demonstrations greeted Central government ministers. Most of these were organized either by the DK or the DMK and the general public supported them fully. There were hundreds of such protests from Tamil Nadu and thousands were jailed. Several hundreds were injured when police used lathi-charge to disperse the peaceful protesters. Lal Bahadur Shastri, the then PM, even though supportive of the pro-Hindi group, came up with a set of compromises that denied Hindi the "sole national language" status, realising the seriousness of the issue.

Thanks for all this information...

Now what do you say about calling names like "Bhaiyas" and insulting Indians on world wide internet...?

What the world will think about we Indians...?

Rohit- English is already the associate offcial language of Central Government and is the official language of state of Nagaland. I think Roman alphabet (ABC-XYZ) should be adopted for all languages. This will bring greater unity and ease to all.

I don't understand the "Bhaiyaa" call. What is it ? I think Hindi should be treated as national language.

Calling names like "Bhaiya(s)" is a derogatory address for Hindi speaking people working as laborers, hackers and other artisans in Mumbai...

Now for making fun few uncivilized people use this abusive word for all north-Indians. A regional political party-people used this slang aloud when they beat-up north Indian laborers and eventually dragged them onboard north-bound trains.

Such abusive words should be removed from the pages of any website that longs for growing among Indians.