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
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.
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.