About English Poem by Gajanan Mishra

Let me say a few lines
About English;
Not an Indian language,
In the 8th Sch of the Constitution of India,
English has not been listed.
Only two percent Indians speak English,
People in Russia, China, Japan, Germany
Hardly understand English and yet
They are developed.
The belief that one can get job or
Achieve success only through English- not true.
Being a self-respecting people
I respect my mother tongue.
Early education must be in the mother tongue.
Some say English is a killer language,
It kills so many languages even in Great Britain or
Say the United Kingdom,
And America or say the United States of America
And Australia.
For English, Indian languages
And Indian culture gets neglected.
So to say English is unconstitutional,
So also in Odisha the use of English
In any office from secretariate to tehsil is unlawful.
All Indian languages are more powerful than
The English- true.
Yet we have a mental slavery to English.
Let me say another side of this coin;
Knowledge of English helps us to communicate,
So also the knowledge of other foreign languages
Are also necessary to communicate abroad.
It is important to know English,
It is also very important to know and take steps
To improve other Indian languages including ours, first.