India or 28 Different Countries? The Madness of Enforcing State Languages on Outsiders

“Welcome to Maharashtra. Please install a Marathi translation app and apply for a visa at the state border. Oh, and don’t forget to delete your previous state’s language from memory—because multilingual madness is now our new national identity crisis!”

Is this what we’ve reduced India to? A patchwork of linguistic ego trips, where each state wants to behave like its own sovereign nation?

The leaders and workers of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena have gone to different banks in Mumbai and asked them to conduct their work in Marathi. Along with this, MNS workers gave a rose flower and a stone to the bank employees. Maharashtra Navnirman Sena leader Mahendra Bhanushali said that we are giving them flowers today so that they understand our point with love, but if in the coming days our point is not heeded and the bank’s work is not started in Marathi, then we will use the stone that has been given to us.

Enough is enough.

The Absurdity of Enforcing Local Language on Outsiders

Imagine a bank employee, or a government officer, or a private sector staffer who gets transferred from Tamil Nadu to Maharashtra, or from Kerala to Gujarat. Now, these state identity warriors expect the person to learn the local language—for a temporary transfer!

Excuse me, are you mad?

Do you expect a Malayali posted in Bihar to start speaking fluent Bhojpuri overnight? Or a Punjabi officer transferred to Tamil Nadu to learn classical Tamil just to communicate? What kind of irrational, regressive logic is this?

We Are Not a Country of Mini-Countries

India is ONE country. Not 28.

But at this rate, each state will soon need its own:

• Visa office at the state border
• Language translator app for survival
• Cultural assimilation exam before employment
• Local language fluency certificate before renting a house

What are we even doing?

And all this is being encouraged by political leaders to appease regional vote banks. Divide and rule 2.0 — not by religion this time, but by language.

The Government’s 3-Language Formula Nonsense

The central government isn’t innocent either. They push the 3-language formula like it’s a brilliant innovation. Learn:

1. Mother tongue
2. Hindi
3. English

And now add a fourth or even a fifth language if your job takes you across states?

Who the hell came up with this system? How is this logically sustainable in a country with 121 spoken languages and 22 scheduled languages?

A working Indian, who shifts every 2–3 years due to job requirements, should now be a polyglot superhero to survive. Unrealistic. Insane. Dangerous.

This Is Discrimination. Period.

Let’s call it what it is: linguistic discrimination. It’s xenophobia masked as pride.

How is it different from saying:

• “You’re not one of us, you don’t speak our tongue.”
• “Go back to your state if you can’t talk like us.”
• “You don’t belong here.”

Is this the India of unity in diversity? Or India of divide and disintegrate?

What the Government Should Be Doing

1. Ban any rule or policy that enforces local language learning on outsiders in jobs, rentals, schools, or government services.
2. Ensure that every Indian citizen can live, work, and communicate in English or Hindi anywhere in India without facing hostility.
3. Penalize language-based discrimination—just like caste or religious discrimination.
4. Promote regional languages by interest, not by force.
5. Launch a national awareness campaign about linguistic inclusivity—not state pride gone toxic.

Are We Building a Nation or a Collection of Kingdoms?

We’re heading toward cultural fascism in the name of local pride.

If every state demands absolute linguistic loyalty, then India is dead. We’ve become just a group of arguing territories, each shouting in its own tongue, with no thread to hold us together.

Let me be blunt:

If India continues to enforce state-wise linguistic dominance, then very soon, we’ll need passports to travel from Kerala to Karnataka.
And what’s next—customs duty for bringing Bengali sweets into Tamil Nadu?

It’s time to wake up. Unity in Diversity doesn’t mean “learn 28 languages or go to hell.” It means respecting each other’s differences—without enforcing them.

Enough of the language politics.

India is one. Let’s keep it that way.

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