Goa, March 18 -- Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, has found himself at the center of a debate in Tamil Nadu concerning the three-language policy. The discussion focuses on whether Pichai, who hails from Tamil Nadu, actually learned Hindi during his school years in the region.

He attended Jawahar Vidyalaya and Vana Vani Matriculation Higher Secondary School, both located on the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) campus, before pursuing engineering at IIT Kharagpur. Pichai completed his education in the 1980s, during which he studied Hindi as a third language. At that time, Jawahar Vidyalaya adhered to the matriculation syllabus that included Hindi; however, it switched to the CBSE syllabus in the late 1990s.

Critics of the three-l...