Indic languages vs English in India - the future?

From what I see there seems to be a situation where English is used in higher education, high-tech jobs while Indic languages are used in primary education, everyday jobs, regional politics and in homes. Which saddens me a little bit, because I think Indians should speak their Indic languages in India.

What would the future in India be like? Will English continue to be the language for "important things" while the Indic languages will die gradually or remain a home language, or will the native languages be valorised and be employed as academic, economic, and professional languages?

My opinion on this topic:

First of all, let me request you to use “Indian” instead of “Indic” which I find weird, though popular on this forum because of constant usage. We Indians don’t see anything wrong or offensive if you call us Indians in writing, unless offense explicitly meant in some other way.

Without doubt, English is the language of Higher Education in India. We don’t have engineering and medical education, even an MBA where one can do full course in any other language. That is because of the historical developments.

But I think you are seeing a little pessimistic view of the things while realities are not so gloomy. Most Indians use their mother tongue to communicate in their family, with their friends, or even with their colleagues at work; be they be working with MNCs or any global corporation at any level. But as you said, such communications are “informal”, while the educated masses would use English in “formal” places like conferences and seminars or in client-calls. I see no harm in it.

I can go on, but will try to conclude fast. The way I find it after living in India all my life in different parts all across the country, I think the major regional languages are not going to die anytime. It would be true for languages like Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu – these languages will never die because these are connected to the “core” of the culture and psyche of the masses. So a demise is “never” going to happen.

The situation about higher education will always remain so, I think, because of the growth “path” we have chosen. I talk to foreign clients daily and without English our whole business unit or entire company just couldn’t work. And we are following a path towards globalization, where we Indians plan to move towards better future riding on our higher education and technical skills, which are all possible to “sell” only because of English.

So local languages will never die. And for languages like Sanskrit, which is practically not in conversations now, I think it will also live “forever” because all our major Hindu scriptures are in Sanskrit and we are “never” going to lose that wisdom. I read Hindu scriptures, in Sanskrit with English or Hindi translations, and for the sake of survival, even Sanskrit is never going to die.

Just like India has survived hundreds of years of Islamic invasion and British rule, our major languages will survive always, because all these things are connected to the “core” of the hearts of our nation.