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Dear Indians, today I want to tell you a story that will make your heart heavy, but also give you hope. It’s a story about our beloved motherland, about brothers fighting brothers, and about a poison that’s slowly eating away at the very soul of our nation.
The Story of Two Brothers
Let me start with Ravi and Arjun. Two childhood friends from Chennai. Ravi spoke Tamil at home, Arjun spoke Hindi. For twenty years, they were inseparable. They shared food, dreams, and even their first jobs in the same IT company.
But then something changed. Social media posts, political rallies, and heated debates slowly crept into their friendship. Ravi started feeling that his Tamil identity was under attack. Arjun felt that refusing to speak Hindi was anti-national. Within months, these two brothers who once shared everything couldn’t even look at each other.
This is happening across India, my friends. Every single day.
The Battleground We Never Asked For
From the streets of Bangalore to the offices of Maharashtra – something beautiful is being lost. Our different languages were once our pride, our strength, our celebration of unity in diversity. What once made us uniquely Indian is now creating unnecessary divisions.
A student in Karnataka gets beaten up for speaking Hindi. A family in Delhi faces discrimination for speaking their mother tongue. A job advertisement in Tamil Nadu explicitly says “Tamil speakers only.” A random person from the North calls South Indians “anti-national” on social media for not learning Hindi.
Kya yeh wahi Bharat hai jiske liye hamare freedom fighters ne apni jaan di thi?
The Poison That’s Spreading
Indians, let me tell you what’s really happening. Politicians are using our love for our languages as a tool to divide us. They know that language is close to our hearts – it’s how our mothers sang us lullabies, how our grandparents told us stories, how we first learned to dream.
And they’re exploiting this sacred bond.
Sometimes, in the rush to promote one language, we forget to celebrate all languages. True love for any Indian language means respecting every other Indian language too.
When we truly understand this, we realize that Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, and all other languages of India are not competitors – they’re companions in the beautiful symphony of Indian culture.
The Price We’re Paying
Do you know what we’re losing in this senseless war?
Our children are growing up thinking that speaking another Indian language makes them less Indian. A Tamil child feels ashamed to learn Hindi. A Hindi-speaking child thinks South Indians are foreigners in their own country.
Our businesses are suffering. Companies are leaving states due to language politics. Jobs are being lost. Talent is being wasted.
Our culture is dying. The beautiful tradition of Indians learning from each other, adopting each other’s words, celebrating each other’s festivals – it’s all disappearing.
Most heartbreaking of all – we’re forgetting what it means to be Indian.
The Memory of Our Ancestors
Indians, Let me remind you of something. Our freedom fighters never fought in just one language. Mahatma Gandhi spoke Gujarati, Hindi, and English. Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose spoke Bengali, Hindi, and multiple other languages. Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam spoke Tamil, Hindi, and English with equal love.
They didn’t see languages as enemies. They saw them as different colors of the same Indian rainbow.
Bhagat Singh wrote in Punjabi, Urdu, and Hindi. Did anyone call him less patriotic?
Rabindranath Tagore wrote our national anthem in Bengali. Did anyone call him anti-national?
The Solution That Lives in Our Hearts
Indians, the solution is not in government policies or political speeches. It’s in our hearts. It’s in our homes. It’s in our daily choices.
For Parents:
Teach your children that every Indian language is a treasure. If you speak Hindi, teach them to respect Tamil. If you speak Bengali, teach them to appreciate Gujarati. Language is not a competition – it’s a celebration.
For Students:
Learn at least one other Indian language. Not because someone is forcing you, but because it will make you a more complete Indian. When you speak to a Maharashtrian in Marathi, watch their face light up. When you greet a Punjabi in their language, see how their heart opens.
For Professionals:
In your workplace, celebrate linguistic diversity. If someone speaks broken Hindi, help them lovingly instead of mocking them. If someone prefers English, don’t call them fake. We’re all trying to communicate, not compete.
For Politicians:
Stop using our languages as vote banks. Start using them as bridges. Instead of saying “Hindi vs Tamil,” say “Hindi and Tamil.” Instead of dividing, start uniting.
The India We Can Build
Imagine an India where a child from Kerala can recite a Hindi poem with pride, and a child from Uttar Pradesh can sing a Tamil song with joy. Where our diversity is our strength, not our weakness.
Imagine offices where people speak multiple languages naturally, where learning new languages is encouraged, where no one feels left out.
Imagine a nation where politicians campaign on development, not on language politics. Where our energy goes into building roads, not building walls between communities.
This is not just a dream, Indians. This is possible. This is the India our Constitution promised us.
The Choice Before Us
We stand at a crossroads today. We can choose to let politicians divide us with language wars, or we can choose to unite as Indians who happen to speak different languages.
We can choose to see other Indian languages as threats, or we can choose to see them as gifts.
We can choose to raise our children as Tamil Indians, Hindi Indians, Bengali Indians – or we can choose to raise them simply as Indians who are proud of their linguistic heritage.
The choice is ours. The time is now.
The India That Already Exists
You know what gives me hope? Walk through any Indian railway station, any metro, any college campus. You’ll see it happening naturally – a Bengali helping a Gujarati in broken Hindi, a Punjabi learning Tamil words from a colleague, a Malayali child singing a Bollywood song with pure joy.
This beautiful India already exists in our hearts. We just need to let it flourish.
The solution isn’t in grand gestures or political speeches. It’s in small, everyday acts of love and respect for each other’s languages.
Jai Hind. Jai Bharat. In every language, in every state, in every heart.
Remember: We are not Hindi Indians or Tamil Indians or Bengali Indians. We are Indians. Period.
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