It's poll season in Mumbai, and the politics of Marathi identity is burning hot, but this blaze is not what has pushed the AQI levels of the Financial Capital to nearly 400. Turns out, the heat is mostly limited to the political corridors, and a major chunk of voters — the youth, and the Gen Z, care more about pothole-free roads, proper drainage, waste management, and the air quality, among other things, over the Marathi Asmita.
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Unlike the southern states, where linguistic pride and southern identity are constant issues, in Maharashtra, the politics of language tends to flare up only around elections.
Amid this, Gen Z's demands from India's richest civic body matter as the city's demography continues to shift, both age-wise, and also linguistically.
At a time when the young are lauding an immigrant mayor, Z
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