What is happening in West Bengal is not just a legal battle. It is a moral crisis. It is a slow, quiet erasure of backward Muslim and Hindu castes from public life
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The Khari Boli–Braj Bhasha controversy teaches us that languages are not just means of communication—they are repositories of memory, religion, resistance, and aspiration.
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This is not just about borders. This is not about security. This is about the state sanctioning civilian-led communal violence, reactivating historical memories of bloodshed, and laying the groundwork for something that echoes all too closely the language of ethnic cleansing.
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