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Prime Minister Narendra Modi

PM Hits Out At Political Parties For Not Doing Enough To Support Indian Languages

Highlighting the challenges faced by youth from villages and poor families in joining the medical profession, PM Modi said the BJP government headed by him understood these issues and provided them with the option of getting...

25 March 2023

CJI Justice DY Chandrachud

CJI Chandrachud's Pitch For Making SC Judgments Available In Regional Languages Laudatory: PM Modi

"At a recent function, the Hon'ble CJI Justice DY Chandrachud spoke of the need to work towards making SC judgments available in regional languages.

22 January 2023

 Gangasagar Mela

Lakhs Of Pilgrims Take Holy Dip At Gangasagar; Two Die Of Heart Attack

Two septuagenarian devotees died of heart attacks during the day, an official said. Another person died here on Friday.

15 January 2023

West Bengal CM Mamta Banerjee

Words Used By Common People Need To Enter Lexicon For Growth Of Language: Mamata

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Tuesday that for the evolution and growth of a language, it is necessary to include words used by the masses to enter its lexicon. Addressing a programme at Deshapriya Park...

22 February 2023

Artwork by Mithu Sen

Politics Of Language: Will We Be Able To Save Our Lingual Diversity?

Language in Europe played a role in imagination and formation of nationhood, but India followed a different path. The Constitution drafting committee under the chairmanship of Dr BR Ambedkar imagined a different India — a...

17 January 2023

SC Refers To Sanskrit, Tamil, Hindi And English Texts To Emphasise Importance Of 'Sweet Speech'

SC Refers To Sanskrit, Tamil, Hindi And English Texts To Emphasise Importance Of 'Sweet Speech'

The contentious constitutional issue had cropped up following the purported statement of then Uttar Pradesh minister Azam Khan with regard to the sensational alleged gang-rape of mother-daughter duo on a highway near...

03 January 2023

UGC announces new set of guidelines directing commencement of new academic session from October 1, admissions to be completed by September 30.

UGC Asks Governors, CMs To Encourage Teaching In Local Languages In Higher Education Institutions

Teaching through Indian languages is a key area of focus of the National Education Policy 2020. The policy emphasizes the importance of teaching and teaching materials in the mother tongue.

18 February 2023

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi

Amit Shah, Other BJP Leaders Speak Against English But Their Children Study In English Medium Schools: Rahul

Rahul Gandhi attacked the BJP's Amit Shah and other leaders on Monday for "speaking against English" and saying their children attend schools that use English as a teaching medium.

19 December 2022

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09 November 2022
Explained: What Is Mother Tongue Survey And Its Importance In Preserving India's Linguistic Data

Explained: What Is Mother Tongue Survey And Its Importance In Preserving India's Linguistic Data

A web archive has been planned to be set up at the National Informatics Centre (NIC) to preserve and analyse the original flavour of each indigenous mother...


30 October 2022
Staging Mirrors: Struggles Of Konkani Language Theatre In Staging Socio-Political Themes Of The Times

Staging Mirrors: Struggles Of Konkani Language Theatre In Staging Socio-Political Themes Of The Times

Be it tradition vs modernity, women’s emancipation or even caste politics, over 90 per cent tiatrs are social dramas, 'since tiatrs have been used as a very...


08 October 2022
Ram Ke Naam: What The Names Tell

Ram Ke Naam: What The Names Tell

A philologist's interpretation of the age when the epic of Ramayan was composed, based on the names of the characters in the story


19 September 2022
NEP Rooted In 'Indianness', Will Promote Learning Mother Tongue: Dharmendra Pradhan

NEP Rooted In 'Indianness', Will Promote Learning Mother Tongue: Dharmendra Pradhan

National Education Policy is rooted in Indianness and emphasises on learning in mother tongue. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has time and again reinforced that...


14 September 2022
The Malayali Loves Hindi, But Don't Take It As Acquiescence

The Malayali Loves Hindi, But Don't Take It As Acquiescence

Hindi Diwas: Even the otherwise Hindi-friendly Malayali rises to resi­st the imposition of Hindi on them


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14 September 2022
Hindi Diwas: Efforts At Proselytising Hindi Abroad Have Fallen Flat Down The Ages

Hindi Diwas: Efforts At Proselytising Hindi Abroad Have Fallen Flat Down The Ages

Hindi Diwas: Efforts to promote Hindi overseas have been ongoing for decades. And both the UPA and NDA governments have strived to have the language adopted...


14 September 2022
The Tamil-Dravidian Framework As A Secular Antithesis To Hindi-Hindu-Hindustan

The Tamil-Dravidian Framework As A Secular Antithesis To Hindi-Hindu-Hindustan

Hindi Diwas: The government should be concerned that the younger generation dislikes language imperialism


14 September 2022
Hindi Chauvinism Hangs Like An Imperialist Spectre Over Rest Of India

Hindi Chauvinism Hangs Like An Imperialist Spectre Over Rest Of India

Hindi Diwas: With Hindi being pushed by the Centre as Rashtra Bhasha, the spectre of language imperialism haunts the Indian Union


14 September 2022
The Urge To Build A National Consciousness Around A Language

The Urge To Build A National Consciousness Around A Language

The move to make Hindi the national language is a political project, the language becoming a tool for constructing national unity


27 July 2022
Giving Our Languages Respect Will Lead To Reaching Greater Heights As Nation: Chief Justice of India

Giving Our Languages Respect Will Lead To Reaching Greater Heights As Nation: Chief Justice of India

CJI Ramana also said a well-informed and rational citizenry was crucial for the country's healthy development and stressed on inculcating the habit of reading...


16 July 2022
A Magahi Novel: Fool Bahadur

A Magahi Novel: Fool Bahadur

An extraordinary literary journey that began with a search of works in the author’s mother tongue.


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09 July 2022
Education Minister Calls For Developing Forward-looking, World-class Institutions

Education Minister Calls For Developing Forward-looking, World-class Institutions

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, while addressing a valedictory address in Varanasi, has called for the development of institutions that work on...


20 June 2022
Marathi Pride Is Passe, Shiv Sena's Apathy Hurts The Language

Marathi Pride Is Passe, Shiv Sena's Apathy Hurts The Language

Despite several agitations by political parties—some violent—the Marathi language is on a downslide. It will take more than government efforts to promote...


17 June 2022
Printing From The Margin Of Margins: Can Goa Retrieve Its Rich History In Publishing?

Printing From The Margin Of Margins: Can Goa Retrieve Its Rich History In Publishing?

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


11 June 2022
Bilingualism Inspires Us To Look Beyond The Limits Of Our Own Cosy Worlds

Bilingualism Inspires Us To Look Beyond The Limits Of Our Own Cosy Worlds

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...


10 June 2022
Awaiting Discovery: World’s 7th-Most-Spoken Language, Yet Bengali Literature Has Very Little Translations

Awaiting Discovery: World’s 7th-Most-Spoken Language, Yet Bengali Literature Has Very Little Translations

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...


10 June 2022
A Booker Moment For Marathi Literature Is A Pipedream

A Booker Moment For Marathi Literature Is A Pipedream

The rich world of Marathi literature has been greatly let down by translators who lack creativity and publishers who lack conviction


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