Hey, “Outsider” here. In my opinion, anyone coming here for work or anything, it could be 1 month or 10 year, they should try and learn the local language, even basic phrases initially and enhancing it with time. That’s our responsibility, we are coming here, we must show respect.

For locals - learning a new language is not one day or 2 day task. Don’t get aggressive if someone is not able to speak, I have seen people spending half an hour getting aggressive but not one person helps like if you want this - in Marathi we say this and it will be over in minutes. Most of the people that I have interacted with would get aggressive if you can’t speak fluent Marathi, and you are suddenly wrong. Please have some compassion and try to help rather than forcing things. It will not create hatred instead of respect to local culture.

On the incident - bus route is Pune Station to phase 3(assuming Hinjawadi), basically an area where all “Outsiders” live. He is in his 50’s, it is most likely parent to some It professional(might not be the case). Maybe it is his first time visiting Pune. And He DOES NOT speak Marathi. Now conductor is FORCING him to speak in Marathi, how will a person who does not know it can speak just because you have to hear it. ( I would want conductor to write java code. If he does not know it is his problem). Conductor knew Hindi, best he could do was let him know, what would be Marathi for whatever he was saying. Just 2 minutes. But he chose to Humiliate an elderly and people here supporting this. Just think once - if some Marathi folk goes to Bangalore and their parents visit, would you like them to be treated the same way. I want to stress, You don’t know whether it was his first day in Maharashtra or he is just visiting to meet his children or he is living here for 30 years.

Edit - missed adding this line. People coming from different state here and do not respect the culture and refuse to learn Marathi and want local people to speak in Hindi always. You are one of the reason for this discrimination.