The freeloading journalists are frothing in their mouths in their attempts to vilify Raj Thackeray of the Shiv Sena for his hounding of North Indians working in Mumbai. Certainly what Thackeray is doing is a disgusting and cynical ploy to whip up some sort of perverted Marathi pride to increase his political power base. What the freeloading press conveniently choose to forget is that this kind of politics was started right at the beginning by our first Prime Minister, Jawarharlal Nehru. Being more English than Indian he chose to divide the country along linguistic, caste and regional lines. He instituted Hindi as the national language without any consultation thus alienating the South. This gave birth to regional parties such as the DMK and TDP fragmenting and polarising the people of the country. Today children with other mother tongues are required to learn Hindi but Hindiwallahs are not required to learn any other language which is grossly unfair. Anti Hindi sentiments have caused many deaths in Assam where locals see Hindi speakers as aliens. Surely if any language deserves to be the national language it is Sanskrit which is the mother language for all Indian languages. Every child would thus learn Sanskrit, English and mother tongue making education equitable. Also knowledge of Sanskrit would enable people to conduct their own religious ceremonies thus erasing the difference between Brahmins and all other castes. However this would be anathema to our criminal politicians who will not be able to occupy reserved seats in colleges and employment. Do we really deserve this garbage?