A post on X (formerly Twitter) has gone viral for dismissing Indian regional languages like Kannada and Tamil as not worth learning, calling them the languages of “poorer economies” with “poor quality ...

In a viral video, a Bengaluru man was seen confronting an auto driver and asking him to speak Hindi. The argument perhaps broke out after the driver told him to speak in the local language, Kannada.

The man’s identity remains unknown, and netizens have dubbed him the ‘Hindi warrior.’ While some supported the need to speak Hindi in Bengaluru, many—especially Kannadigas—expressed outrage at being ...