Dear Indians, if you are wounded by a knife, you aren't supposed to stab yourself a second time to heal the first gash. You should be treating the wound not hurting yourself more.
Just because you have been colonised by the British in the past and have been anglicised, doesn't mean you should let yourself get culturally colonised for a second time by the Hindustanis (and by that I mean north India, especially the Hindi-belt). Let Hindi remain where it belongs, let the North Indians take pride in it. Stick to your native tongue and traditions, even the wounds of the first attack will be healed. But if you keep wounding your culture with non-indigenous influences, you will be crippled beyond rescue. Only God can save you then.
We might be free politically but our minds are still those of colonised people. If we are to be truly independent, truly free, we must take pride in our native identities. We need a new freedom struggle, freedom from the shackles of our own inferiority complexes.
জয় বাংলা, জয় হিন্দ!
- a fellow Indian 🇮🇳