While addressing the crowd at a graduation ceremony in a private college, Indian cricketer Ravichandran Ashwin stated that Hindi is not our national language, it is an official language.
Star Indian cricketer Ravichandran Ashwin was at a private college event, where he made some comments about the status of Hindi in India. As he addressed the students of the college during their graduation ceremony, Ashwin stated Hindi to not be the national language of India.
Ashwin had made this comment as the crowd had went silent when he asked if anyone was interested in asking questions in Hindi just in case if they were not fluent in English or Tamil language.
In the college event, Ashwin said, “English students in the house, give me a ‘yay’” to which the people started cheering. Ashwin further said, ‘Tamil,” to which even more portion of the crowd cheered. Then Ashwin said, “Hindi,” to which very selective people made a bit of noise. After this, Ashwin said, “I thought I should say this: Hindi is not our national language, it is an official language.”
Ravi Ashwin “’Hindi is not a National Language, It’s an official Language.”
— Vipin Tiwari (@Vipintiwari952) January 9, 2025
For those unversed, Hindi has been given the status of the official language in the Constitution of India. It is not our national language. People of India celebrate September 14 as Hindi Diwas, as Hindi was given the status of official language by the Central Government. 43.63 percent of the Indian population speaks in Hindi according to the census of 2011.
