Books and Shops!
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Today I visited Marathi bookshops in Pune, once my favorite haunt for all my literature needs. Now, mostly I order online. Today, however, I spent time scanning through Diwali magazines in Marathi, looking for content in Indic "dialects". I found a lot of exciting literature, belying possible demise that I fear for, many focused explicitly on variations of Marathi found across Maharashtra, from Konkan to Chandrapur. This new-found focus warmed my heart, there is hope for rejuvenation of our languages, if only we can educate masses to Masters degrees using scheduled languages.
Dialects is an oft-abused term in public space. To the beginner, all various languages are independent-- Pune Marathi and Satara Marathi, for example. Various similarities between two do not imply that a "scheduled" language (Pune Marathi) is a "mother language" to other similar sounding tongues.
I also visited a famous food place in Pune (Cxx Brothers), which had this board prominently displayed "अनारसे संपले आहेत" -- telling the customer that the popular product was no longer available and there was no intent to produce it either. This is the difference between a startup and a "regular house-hold shop"-- we intend to grow, and have all the desire in the world to satisfy customer demand, and we are not being satisfied on existing crumbs... And, we have no other branches :-)