The national language of India might be Hindi, but in Tamil Nadu it was never been even seen as one...i spoke to a guy from Tamil Nadu...i asked him.."u can speak Hindi"...he say "i am from Tamil Nadu and Hindi is not been taught there"...i said "it is your national language rite"...he said "yes, even central govt (Delhi) try to bring to Tamil Nadu but Tamil people start rioting burning buses, and so on..and even Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu launched an Anti Hindi propaganda so there will be no one in Tamil Nadu will learn Hindi"...i ask "can u guys survive without Hindi"..he said "why not, in Tamil Nadu mostly everything is in Tamil"...i asked "why u guys dont want speak hindi, it wil be plus point right"..he say "we start speaking now and then in the future our kids n all will be more Hindi educated and language of Tamil might vanished"...only tamil nadu and Bengal has this policy out of 28 states in India, which is not to speak Hindi...
The population of Tamil speakers could easily reach 200 million across the glob...it is been regarded as classic language by the world...even me..my mother tongue is Tamil but i dont know to read or write it because i went to National school...so it never been taught..but we can learn it by our intrest..to be sincere i didn't have the motivation..whenever my mom takes tamil book and come to teach me when i was small i wil run or hide the book somewhere...so i dont have to learn it...and my grandmother will support me and say "leave him, he knows to speak that is enough, let him concentrate with other subjects"..but thanks to my granny only i can speak Tamil because she keep a must whenever i speak to her it should be in Tamil...now i regret why i didn't take intrest n learning it..i am not the only person who have this problem..but many Indians in Malaysia cant read, write and even speak their mother tongue due to their low passion...