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Bhasha Bridge: How young Indian Americans are reclaiming their mother tongue
We uncover the rise of digital script-immersion cohorts where Gen Z and Millennial Indian Americans are viewing their Mother Tongue not just as a tool, but as the ultimate key to their intellectual heritage.
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Pallavi Mehra - Sat, 24, Jan 2026
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For decades, the linguistic route of the Indian American community followed a predictable curve. The first generation arrived with fluent regional mother tongues, while their children settled into the comfortable and limited, intermediate space of “Kitchen Hindi” or “Broken Bengali.”
But as we move through 2026, a quiet revolution is unfolding across digital screens from New Jersey to Los Angeles. The Bhasha Bridge is being built, not by parents forcing Saturday school, but by Gen Z and Millennial Indian American professionals who are reclaiming their scripts as a form of intellectual decolonization.
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