Hardly Any Non-English Indian Sites?

[Jeff]

This press release:
IAMAI :: Press Release :: News Detail
by the Internet & Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) - who are smart enough to use a .in domain - claims that there are only 1,249 in India that are not in English - 713 of those being in Hindi

Frankly, I have trouble believing that. Just doing a search on Google I can find more than this.

But I think that it does go to reinforce the fact that English is the predominant language of the Internet in India, and will continue to be for a long time.

 

[RaghavK]

I expected the number to be at least thrice of what it is right now..

 

[zeelot]

Well English will be dominant on us Indians for really long time as we don't actually respect our mother tongue & If we don't who else will? Unless we unite and create a large effort to push Hindi as our official language for our websites and stuff, things won't change!

 

[RaghavK]

and all this should be done keeping in mind that inspite of having hindi websites, our people should be able to understand english as well..after all, we can only change a part of the Internet and not the whole..