India’s language policy debate — reignited by the National Education Policy’s implementation — reveals deeper tensions between the country’s state and central governments, with southern states ...
To outsiders, India seems like a homogeneous monolith. Proof? Ask Indians how many times they have been questioned, "Do you speak Indian?" Far from this myth, India is home to hundreds of languages, ...
India's Home Minister Amit Shah recently said that those who speak English in the South Asian country would "soon feel ashamed." He also urged people to speak their mother tongue with pride. "I ...
A memorial in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, for those who died in the Anti-Hindi imposition agitations in the state, 2011. Credit: Wikipedia/Surya Prakash S.A. On February 19, Udhayanidhi Stalin, the deputy ...
Postdoctoral researcher in the School of Languages, Literatures & Cultures and Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, University of Galway India is a home to numerous ancient and ...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican indigenous language specialists want to bring native tongues into elementary schools to prevent them from dying out. Sign up here. The National Institute for Indigenous ...
India is home to great writing systems such as the Brāhmī and the Kharosthī that date back centuries. It’s also a land where languages such as Sanskrit, Tamil and Kannada have etched an oral history ...