LANGUAGES IN INDIA ARE MEANT TO UNITE, NOT DIVIDE Recently, on social media, I heard an SBI bank manager in Chandapura, Bangalore, telling a customer, 'I will not speak Kannada; I will speak Hindi.' Hindi is our national language. At the same time, the bank customers were pressuring the bank manager to speak Kannada. The customer was adamant that the bank manager should talk to her in Kannada. However, the manager clearly said that she would not do so. A video was also made by the woman during the argument, which is currently going viral on social media. The argument between the bank manager and the customer has sparked controversy although the battle between Kannada and Hindi is an age-old one in Karnataka. Such controversies have been increasing rapidly since Bangalore has emerged as an IT hub where the number of Hindi-speaking people has also increased rapidly. ANGER OF KANNADA ORGANIZATIONS This incident has not only heated up the con...