How does a language degenerate and why? A language is not merely a collection of words but it includes tone, a certain grammar and expressiveness of being. It represents the nostalgia of culture and the aesthetics of unwritten history. In the case of Bhojpuri, a language of East UP and Bihar, of crores of migrants across India and of crores of Indian diaspora in oceanic countries, the language is struggling with a paradox of cultural morality and social mobility.