West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee addresses an event to mark International Mother Language Day, in Kolkata.
Activists decorate a street ahead of International Mother Language Day in Kolkata.
Activists decorate a street ahead of International Mother Language Day in Kolkata.
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.
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...
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.
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...
Students hold placards and a banner during a silent protest to demand promotion and preservation of Kashmiri language, in Srinagar.
Many institutions offer foreign language lessons
Awardees during the Hindi Diwas Samaroh 2018, in New Delhi.
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...
A Sindhi language class in progress at a Mumbai college
Sheldon Pollock, eminent Sanskritists and founder-editor, Murty Classical Library
Artists waiting to perform during the inauguration of the 1st Confucius classroom of Chinese language at china town, in Kolkata.
Artists perform Dragon Dance during inauguration of Indias Confucius Classroom at the school of Chinese Langague in China Town, Kolkata.
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...
‘Unhidden persuader’
The anti-Hindi agitation at its peak in 1965
C.N. Annadurai, M. Karunanidhi, MGR and Periyar in the late 1960s
