In an increasingly cosmopolitan Goa, Konkani’s slow and steady march to irrelevance appears to have begun. Apart from socio-cultural change, large scale migration – both into and out of Goa, there are some inherent fundamental flaws, which may have...
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.
Chinese Communist Party's Politburo member Li Changchun said these institutes are an 'important part of China’s overseas propaganda set-up'.
Singer Sonu Nigam has spoken up about his thoughts on the ongoing debate around Hindi as the national language. This comes days after actor Ajay Devgn and...
How the 1971 decision to exclude minor languages from Census report is killing India’s linguistic diversity
As advocates of regional languages gear up to face the threat of a Hindi deluge, they are also waking up to the existential threat of internal decay. We look...
Actor Ajay Devgn and Kiccha Sudeep took to Twitter to go back and forth at each other over whether or not Hindi is the national language of India. Celebs like...
Gurmukhi now dominates Punjab’s public spaces. Does this demonstrate an assertion of a regional identity shaped by Partition, reorganisation and insurgency?
In a country as linguistically diverse as India, with its treasure trove of regional literature and a growing tribe of English speakers, translation as a...
Despite several agitations by political parties—some violent—the Marathi language is on a downslide. It will take more than government efforts to promote...
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...
Assam’s immigrant Muslims are owning the racial slur Miya to assert their identity and express dissent
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
The government should be concerned that the younger generation dislikes language imperialism
The idea that Hindi is spoken by a majority of Indians is a claim that has to be ferociously contested. Only 26 per cent of the Indian population selected...
