It doesn’t help if that one language is English. Everyone speaks it, or understands the necessity of the ‘lingua franca’. So it is no one’s language of fraternity.
Why books minus touristy cliches, voices from outside the metros, and inexpensive printing options in small states like Goa are the needs of the hour
In contrast to pre-Independence writers looking to get their work published in the UK, postcolonial writers started preferring the US.
G. N. Devy, eminent literary critic, author and linguist, speaks to Outlook on the tradition of translating and adapting mythologies and religious texts in...
Translation is no mean business. While it might have its flip side and share of unsatisfactory attempts, a less than perfect translation is better than no...
To deliberately misquote Dilip Chitre’s poem Lost Images, a lifetime is not enough to realise what it means to be a translator
‘The translator is the traitor’, they say in Italian. Such was the distrust and paranoia in Europe for translations that scholars were executed for...
The rich world of Marathi literature has been greatly let down by translators who lack creativity and publishers who lack conviction
For years, Bengali has had dominance among other Indian languages when it came to literature translated into other languages. For the late 19th and early 20th...
When asked if he was profiling Hindi-speakers, the minister said it's 'not like that'. He said, 'Most of them are working in pani puri shops'.
After two years of relative peace and amity, the Bhoti language issue may end up creating fissures between Leh and Kargil regions in Ladakh.
Of the 53 crore purported Hindi-speakers in India, according to the 2011 census, 12 crore actually spoke languages that are awaiting their own recognition.
After the 1971 Census, the Indian government had stated that any indigenous language, that is spoken by less than 10,000 people, would no longer be considered...
While many states have criticised the New Education Policy as a Hindi imposition, experts feel the importance it gives to mother tongues as a medium of...
There is no standard system for the visually impaired to take exams in Braille in India. Availability of books in Braille is also a problem.
Amidst the ongoing controversy on whether Hindi is the national language of India or not, actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui has taken a jibe at B-Town celebs’...
Despite several agitations by political parties—some violent—the Marathi language is on a downslide. It will take more than government efforts to promote...
Catholics support Romi Konkani because the script is used in the church and tiatr, but Devanagari Konkani has government backing
Even the otherwise Hindi-friendly Malayali rises to resist the imposition of Hindi on them
The move to make Hindi the national language is a political project, the language becoming a tool for constructing national unity
Throughout the Republic’s history, several states have seen protests against the imposition of Hindi. Can there be a national language of a multilingual...
Caught between twin pincers of the market and a communalised polity, Urdu is in death throes
Efforts to promote Hindi overseas have been ongoing for decades. And both the UPA and NDA governments have strived to have the language adopted officially by...
Not only did the Centre’s push for a five-language formula for J&K in 2020 end Urdu’s status as its sole official language, it is also seen as an...
With Hindi being pushed by the Centre as Rashtra Bhasha, the spectre of language imperialism haunts the Indian Union
