One of the things I find extremely irritating is when I am told that I should be talking proper Hindi because it is my mother tongue. Firstly I am a Bengali and I think Bengali is much superior in its literature, poetry and music than Hindi. Secondly Hindi was imposed suddenly on the country by Nehru to give Hindiwallahs an unfair advantage in government jobs and because the Nehru-Gandhi family is elected from some part of Uttar Pradesh. It would have been much more fair to make Sanskrit the national language. Sanskrit is, after all, the mother of all Indian languages and every child would learn English, Sanskrit and mother tongue ( Tamil, Oriya or Hindi ) in school. That would have integrated the country instead of dividing it as Hindi has done. Also if everyone knows Sanskrit then there would be no need for pundits. The reason why Brahmins were able to maintain their superiority in caste through the centuries is because of their knowledge of Sanskrit and hence their control of the scriptures. We cannot buy a house, get married or even die without the services of a Brahmin at considerable cost. Knowledge of Sanskrit would enable everyone to perform their own puja or ritual and make all castes equal. Why would anyone call himself a Dalit when he has equal knowledge of scriptures as Brahmins do at present? After all God does not belong to anyone and did not sanction castes. But without castes politicians would be unable to divide society and exploit the weak so the class war will continue. What would we have achieved if such divisions did not exist.