India, June 30 -- Once again, the Maharashtra Legislature opens not as a forum for governance but as a theatre of absurdity. The monsoon session for 2025 kicked off today with all the usual rituals: garlands for Shivaji Maharaj, high tea invites, dramatic boycotts, and of course, an all-out ideological slugfest over a language policy that's already been rolled back. Because who needs to discuss floods, suicides, missing funds, or crumbling infrastructure when you can reheat the same cultural controversies?

This time, the great Hindi debate took centre stage-again. After the government's now-revoked decision to introduce Hindi as a third language from Class 1, the opposition erupted in righteous fury, flinging seven-page letters, skipping...