Last month, a 19-year-old youth ended his life allegedly after an altercation involving Marathi language during his commute. While the financial capital remains a melting pot, it’s the nature of travel on the local train that’s under lens for sparking discord over lingo What was once routine jostling over space on Mumbai’s lifeline — its suburban railway network used by close to 70 lakh commuters every day — has turned into a flashpoint over the contentious issue of language. Barely months after a ‘Hindi vs Marathi’ debate raged in the city over the state govt’s move to make Hindi mandatory in schools from class 1, it reportedly claimed the life of a 19-year-old student. Arnav Khaire, a first-year BSc student from Kalyan, died by suicide on Nov 18 after he was assaulted on

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