Those opposing English base their argument on the premise, that India, with its vast diversity, rich culture and more than a dozen healthy languages, does not have to import languages to link its people. Rather, they say that Hindi, which is the most popular and prevalent of India languages, should function as the link languages. They fear that, if English enjoys importance, the native languages will lose popularity and pass into oblivion. Though the first argument is reasonable, the second is quite absurd. That argument is reasonable, all Indian languages commanded popularity and recognition, despite the supremacy English enjoyed until then, indicates that the popularity of English was not at the expense of Indian languages. Despite its soundness, the first argument may not be acceptable, because then people of South Indian, particularly in Tamil Nadu, strongly oppose any move to make Hindi the link language of Indian. Quite amusingly, their preference is for a foreign language, English, rather than for the native Hindi.