Hindi is not an adversary to any Indian language rather a “companion to all”, Union home minister Amit Shah said on Thursday, adding that there should be no opposition to any foreign languages.

India currently has 22 officially recognised languages and more than 10,000 local languages, making it complicated to code an AI model that can process all these languages seamlessly.

Hindi is a friend (‘sakhi’) of all Indian languages," the home minister said. Hindi and other Indian languages together can take the self-esteem of the country’s culture to its final ...