The North South language divide and my proposed solution.

About me : I am Male 16 yo from Gujarat. I can read and write and understand English, Gujarati and hindi and to some extent sanskrit. I am studying in english medium since the nursery (from the beginning).

The North South language "Division" has been in the news ever since I started using socials. Karnataka going to great lengths to "preserve" Kannada. The southern leaders taking oaths and pledges against Hindi. I am from Gujarat and the language has never been an issue to me in here. I have seen billboards writing in pure gujarati or pure english or both in various forms but they haven't been broken or torn by do called activists. Wherever I go when I travel, I sometimes say a few words in one language and if the other person responds in a different language that I know , i turn the conversation into that. In my hometown, there is a waiter/manager in my favourite restaurant and we talk jn hindi because he is from northeast and doesn't know gujarati. No one here beats up someone for not knowing a certain language. Gujarati people don't fear that some other language will replace gujarati. And after all language is just a way to express/communicate yourself in a way that others understand. When I was 8 9 years old, we went on a trip to kerala, we had booked a tempo traveler and that guy knew both Malayalam and hindi, he helped us to communicate with the locals. There shouldn't be a language divide at all, in my opinion.

Now my PROPOSED solution, everyone graduating from 10th boards or secondary school should atleast be able to read, write and speak 2 languages, 1 mandatory (Preferably English as it is an foreign laungage and not claimed by any indian states) and another local language chose by the student.

This way every person in india would be able to communicate with one another without issues and no one would be offended.