Bengaluru man calls Hindi an 'alien language'

In a strange incident, a Kannada-speaking man gave the Blinkit delivery app a piece of his mind after receiving a notification in Hindi. Labelling it an ‘alien language,’ the frustrated man expressed his dissatisfaction with Blinkit using Hindi instead of Kannada for customers in Bengaluru.

Sharing a chat screenshot with Blinkit’s support team, the man, known as @Metikurke on ‘X,’ wrote, “Blinkit sent a harmful notification and wished me “Gaya,” which means “wound” in Kannada. I told them, if I received one more threatening notification, I would lodge a police complaint. After that, they stopped sending nonsense in alien languages. That’s how we need to deal!!”

It all began when the user received a notification from Blinkit in Hindi, which read, “Dekho ye order 12 minutes mein deliver ho gaya (See this order was delivered in just 12 minutes).”

Reportedly, the man couldn’t tolerate the Hindi words on his phone screen and promptly contacted the app’s support team to voice his concern. In his message, he threatened to lodge a police complaint against Blinkit for sending notifications in an “alien language,” which he deemed to be Hindi. Making a fuss over the ‘Deliver ho gaya’ notification, he pretended to be unfamiliar with Hindi. In his ‘X’ post, he wrote, “Blinkit sent a troubling notification and wished me ‘Gaya,’ which means ‘wound’ in Kannada.”