Today you will decide that the national language of the Indian Union will be “Hindi”. You may decide that. There is nothing substantial in the name of “Hindi”. The real problem is the question of the characteristic of the language. We wanted to keep it in its real form by calling it “Hindustani” Your majority did not agree to it. But it is still in the hands of our countrymen not to allow the shape of Hindi to be deformed and instead of making it an artificial language let it remain an easy and intelligible medium of expression. Let us hope that the present atmosphere of narrow-mindedness which is the residue of the past misfortune will not last long and very soon such an environment will be created in which people freeing themselves from all sorts of sentiments would see the problem of language in its real and true perspective.
