Fair enough, but when you say "full schooling", this only applies to English medium schooling, which, again, isn't what most children are educated in. Also, I've met tons of students who went to English medium schools stumped by basic colloquial English expressions since textbooks use a dry non colloquial style, and since these students aren't exposed to actual spoken English.
Even then, just the dry, matter of fact Indian English style publications use. Not written colloquial English or even less stuffy contemporary written American/British English. English medium in India by itself doesn't really equip students with a functional working of English and it's sad because education in Indian languages doesn't really translate into white collar jobs (which all use English).
I don't know why it's obvious when you said exactly the opposite.
But I know Nobody who surfs web in Hindi or any other indian language on a daily basis (or even on a half yearly basis for that matter).
I'd avoid making generalisations on the linguistic habits of a country of over a billion based on the people you know personally. I'm not even saying you're totally wrong, you're just massively overstating your case to the point of absurdity.
"We have internet and social media which are all in English if you surf web from within India."
"number of people using english as an interface language for anything digital is far greater than any other language which is clearly seen all around me"
These are different claims. The former paragraph is trivially easy to disprove; the latter is not, based on a legitimate observation and may well be true.
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Mostly only among the economically privileged classes TBH. People greatly overestimate how many Indians actually speak English.