The social media are awash with posts since the government recently expressed its thoughts on making English and Hindi, along with Nepali, the country’s official languages. The imposition of Hindi as an official language in the southern Indian states by the political forces dominated by the Hindi speaking northern belt was a matter of major political controversy in the 1950s and 1960s. Therefore, it is only natural that there will be controversy when a language that has been contested in the country of its origin itself is imposed on another one. However, the issue is not something to get too nationalistic about, but to see what will work for Nepal in the next 20 to 30 years.