On Air India’s Mumbai flight, a woman misbehaved with a passenger named Mahi Khan for not speaking Marathi. Mahi Khan told that he called the crew but no one helped. The incident sparked a nationwide debate on “language freedom versus regional pride”.
New Delhi. An incident regarding the “language wall” took place in an Air India flight which shocked the passengers. A female passenger asked the man named Mahi Khan sitting next to her to speak to her in Marathi, and when he refused, she got angry and started arguing. The fight escalated so much that it created an uncomfortable atmosphere in the entire flight. This incident happened in the Air India flight to Mumbai, and its video was also recorded in the mobile camera, which is now going viral on social media.
What happened in this flight?
Mahi Khan is a YouTuber and content creator. He told that he was going to Mumbai by 6:25 am flight. After takeoff, he moved his seat back a little and the bottle kept on the tray of the woman sitting behind him fell. The woman immediately started shouting in Marathi.
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Mahi said, “I told her sorry, but when she said something in Marathi again, I didn’t understand. I asked her to please speak in Hindi or English so that I could answer. Then she said, ‘You are going to Mumbai, don’t you know Marathi?'”
Is it necessary to speak Marathi only when going to Mumbai?
Mahi Khan says that he has been living in Mumbai for about four years and has many Marathi friends, but no one ever forced him to speak in any language. He said, “If a language is taught with love, it looks beautiful, but when an attempt is made to impose it, the same language becomes a cause of discrimination.”
He told that he called the crew member and told him everything, but he only intervened and did not take any concrete action. The woman even threatened that “after reaching Mumbai, I will explain the meaning of misbehavior.” Mahi raised the question, “Is it necessary to speak Marathi in an Air India flight? If not, then why did the crew not stop that woman?”
Mahi Khan’s pain: “We talk about unity in diversity, but where is unity?”
Mahi said, “We raise the slogan of ‘unity in diversity’, but where is unity visible in reality? When people start dividing each other in the name of language, region and identity, then unity remains only in books.” He said that in a country like India, every language has its own beauty, but when someone tries to impose his language on someone else, it becomes a dispute and not a dialogue. This incident is a direct example of this.