Hyderabad, Nov. 11 -- A social media post highlighting the presence of Bengali signboards in a lane near AIG Hospitals in Hyderabad's Gachibowli has sparked a debate over language use and the need to protect Telugu.

The post described Hyderabad as increasingly becoming a second home for people from North India and expressed concern over the absence of Telugu signboards in the lane, where shops reportedly displayed signboards entirely in Bengali.

The X user who shared the post said people moving to Hyderabad should respect the local language and called for a Telangana Telugu Protection Board, similar to initiatives in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, to safeguard the language.

Her post was welcomed and criticised, with some arguing that such r...