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...
"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.
Two septuagenarian devotees died of heart attacks during the day, an official said. Another person died here on Friday.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
A philologist's interpretation of the age when the epic of Ramayan was composed, based on the names of the characters in the story
National Education Policy is rooted in Indianness and emphasises on learning in mother tongue. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has time and again reinforced that...
Hindi Diwas: Even the otherwise Hindi-friendly Malayali rises to resist the imposition of Hindi on them
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...
Hindi Diwas: The government should be concerned that the younger generation dislikes language imperialism
Hindi Diwas: With Hindi being pushed by the Centre as Rashtra Bhasha, the spectre of language imperialism haunts the Indian Union
The move to make Hindi the national language is a political project, the language becoming a tool for constructing national unity
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...
An extraordinary literary journey that began with a search of works in the author’s mother tongue.
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, while addressing a valedictory address in Varanasi, has called for the development of institutions that work on...
Despite several agitations by political parties—some violent—the Marathi language is on a downslide. It will take more than government efforts to promote...
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
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...
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...
The rich world of Marathi literature has been greatly let down by translators who lack creativity and publishers who lack conviction