Acharya Prashant addresses the decline of the Hindi language, stating that schools are not the root cause. The real issue, he explains, lies with those who have marginalized Hindi since India's independence. He quotes the poet Dhumil: "Today I tell you a truth before which every other truth is small; in this world, the biggest argument of a hungry man is bread." The core of the problem is that Hindi has been disconnected from "bread," meaning livelihood and employment. English has been made mandatory for even the smallest jobs, leading people to question the utility of Hindi if it cannot provide them with a livelihood. Acharya Prashant argues that if professional education like engineering and medicine were available in Hindi and other Indian languages, people would not gravitate towards English. He dismisses the argument that English is an "international language" as a useless pretext, pointing out that most people who use this excuse will never travel internationally and must live and work within the country. The speaker asserts that the common Indian learns English simply because there is no employment without it. English has been artificially made the language of employment, which was unnecessary. He questions why knowledge of English is required to be a railway driver, a police constable, or even a good manager. This situation is the result of a conspiracy by some cunning and some foolish people. He points out that until recently, major exams like UPSC and IIT-JEE were conducted only in English, and medical education still is. He highlights the irony that the land of Sushruta, the father of surgery, cannot teach medicine in its own languages. He argues that a language flourishes when its speakers have either money or great love for it. Since a society with great love is a distant spiritual ideal, the language must be linked to economic prosperity. He cites examples of developed nations like Japan, Germany, and France, which progressed using their own languages, not English. He concludes that true economic progress for a nation can only happen in its own language and that by abandoning their own languages for poor English, Indians have become "jokers" to the world.
