English in India

While reading a book, I came across two interesting
observations about English language in India.

1. Many of us Indians oppose the English language
since it's a foreign language. But the Sanskrit
language itself, which is supposed to be the mother
of many Indian languages, is a foreign language.

Quoting from Wikipedia :
...Sanskrit arrived in what is now India and Pakistan from the
north-west some time during the early second millennium BCE.

2. Motilal Nehru, father of India's first prime minister, used to

speak English at home, even though his wife couldn't speak it.

The book that I am referring to is this.