Multilingualism has been in an alarmingly accelerated decline in the post-independence period despite, or because of, various attempts to re-vamp the 1968. Three Language Formula towards a more flexible national educational policy. English continues to be the solution as well as the problem, even as it increasingly inhibits dialogues among the other Indian languages. This multilingualism and its implications for Literary cultures in India. The First part addresses questions of a more general import, whereas the second part focuses on specific language-cultures.