Mumbai: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), India’s formidable ideological fountainhead, has recently articulated a powerful and profoundly significant statement: “All Indian languages are national languages.” This declaration, coming from an organization with deep roots in Hindu nationalism and a pervasive influence on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is far from a mere linguistic pronouncement. It is a strategic pronouncement imbued with layers of cultural, political, and social implications, particularly resonant in states like Maharashtra, where linguistic identity has long been a potent political tool, wielded most famously by the…
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