Shiraz Hussian (L) shows the aluminium sheets with Ramayana in Urdu, written by him in an attempt to enter the "Guiness World Records", in Kolkata.
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Companies of Joaldunak (cowbells) walk as Basques from both sides of the Franco-Spanish border gather at Saint-Pee-sur-Nivelle, southwestern France. Some tens of thousands of Basqu...
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee pays floral tribute at the Bhasha Shahid Memorial monument on the occasion of International Mother Language Day, in Kolkata.
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People pay tributes at 'Bhasha Shahid Bedi', a memorial for Bengali language martyrs, on the occasion of International Mother Language Day, in Kolkata. International Mother Languag...
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Students hold placards and a banner during a silent protest to demand promotion and preservation of Kashmiri language, in Srinagar.
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POLYGLOT SCHOOL
Many institutions offer foreign language lessons
Awardees during the Hindi Diwas Samaroh 2018, in New Delhi.
PTI Photo/Manvender Vashist
Vice President Venkaiah Naidu, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, MoS for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju and Hanraj Gangaram Ahir launch the website "Leela Hindi Prawah" during the Hindi Diwa...
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Tip Of The Tongue
A Sindhi language class in progress at a Mumbai college
Sheldon Pollock, eminent Sanskritists and founder-editor, Murty Classical Library
Photograph by Jitender Gupta
Artists waiting to perform during the inauguration of the 1st Confucius classroom of Chinese language at china town, in Kolkata.
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Artists perform Dragon Dance during inauguration of Indias Confucius Classroom at the school of Chinese Langague in China Town, Kolkata.
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Consulate General of the People's Republic of China, Ma Zhanwu and Trinamool Congress MP Dinesh Trivedi during the inauguration of the First Confucius Classroom of Chinese language...
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Periyar
‘Unhidden persuader’
High Noon
The anti-Hindi agitation at its peak in 1965
The Quartet
C.N. Annadurai, M. Karunanidhi, MGR and Periyar in the late 1960s
People hold Bengali alphabets along with India and Bangladesh flags during a programme ahead of International Mother Language Day.
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English As She’s Spoke The language of empowerment
Shekhar Gupta
Artists from Kashmir during a rehearsal for the 10th World Hindi Conference, in Bhopal.
The burning of Madhu Barnabodha, long acknowledged as Odisha's blue book of grammar and punctuation, by Koshal activists has opened old wounds but carving new state looks impossible
The National Register of Citizens continues to cause a heartburn among the Assamese and the state's Miya community has chosen poetry as a medium to make itself heard
A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Prateek Jalan on Friday issued notice to the environmentalist, on whose plea the high court had issued the direction, and sought his response by September 23.
"A common language not just for India but any country is good for its unity and progress. Unfortunately, (one cannot) bring a common language in our country. So you cannot impose any language," Rajinikanth said.
Senior journalist Pranabjit Doloi filed a complaint last Thursday against 10 poets of the genre, accusing them of labelling Assamese as xenophobic in their poems.
Though immersion in more than one language at an early age is useful towards learning more languages, this would only result in functional proficiency.
Mamata Banerjee also reiterated that outsiders instigated the doctors' agitation in the state and accused the BJP of targeting the Bengalis and the minorities.