India, June 9 -- India is fundamentally a landscape of voices. According to the 2011 Census, our nation boasts 22 Scheduled Languages and a staggering 1,369 rationalised mother tongues. This breathtaking diversity is our greatest cultural asset. Yet for decades, a silent paradox has lingered beneath the surface. The architecture of our higher education, legal systems, and modern digital economy has rested almost entirely on an English foundation. English is recorded as the mother tongue of just 0.02% of Indians, which is approximately 260,000 people in a nation of 1.4 billion. Even accounting for those who use it as a second or third language, nearly 90% of the country remains outside the English-speaking umbrella. This is not merely an i...