Re: Shashi Tharoor argues Britain must pay India for its colonial rule damages
If English is overrated, try demoting it as an official language in India and see what happens. Even if you don’t think much of English, you must admit, it is a language that is holding India together. And its importance in international trade, business, commerce, diplomacy, etc cannot be underestimated. Take any other language, see how far you get in the world. While I did not imply it in my original post, but this is the result of British imperialism, which was far more successful than that of other European powers.
I will leave you with one other thought. All the leaders in the fight for freedom for India/Pakistan were educated in Britain. And that education was key to the success of the freedom movement. Don’t think they were getting introduced to these ideas of that education in hindi, urdu or sanskrit.