India, April 19 -- 'Before us is a fellow citizen who has taken great pains to take this matter twice to the High Court and then twice again before this court. What the appellant thinks may also be the thinking of many of our fellow citizens. These need to be addressed.' With this meaningful observation, a division bench of the Supreme Court has decided an appeal challenging why the municipal committee of a small township in Maharashtra wrote its name on its office signboard, along with Marathi, in Urdu (Varshati v State of Maharashtra, 2025). The court's observation cited here reflects its annoyance and worry about the bias now widely prevailing in society against this beautiful and melodious language born and brought up on Indian soil and recognised by the Constitution as one of the country's principal languages....