In the ongoing debates surrounding language in modern India, it is essential to reflect on the role and significance of English in our lives today. Beyond the discourses on Indianisation and the ...

Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar emphasized language as a unifying cultural heritage at an event showcasing a play on Emperor ...

The launch offered the perfect segue into the evolution of language and how its usage has adapted to fit the local lexicon.

While my early work focused on the language practices of Hindi-speaking hijras in Varanasi, my more recent work examines the bilingual practices of the globalized middle classes in urban India. I am ...

While the headlines focus on Hindi vs Tamil, the real story is richer — multilingual states, English’s quiet rise and Hindi’s changing role. The charts below reveal India’s linguistic ...

A panel discussion at the launch of Peggy Mohan’s book, ‘Father Tongue, Motherland’ traced the evolution of Indian languages from the Indus Valley Civilisation to the Mughal era.