Prime Minister Narendra Modi encourages the people to make Yoga a part of their daily routine.
In an increasingly cosmopolitan Goa, Konkani’s slow and steady march to irrelevance appears to have begun. Apart from socio-cultural change, large scale...
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
We have come a long way from the colonial translations of the colonised other(s) and their literature(s), but a lot remains to be explored and understood when...
A Private Member's Bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha by BJP MP from Ladakh Jamyang Tsering Namgyal, seeking the inclusion of the Bhoti language in the 8th...
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...
Catholics support Romi Konkani because the script is used in the church and tiatr, but Devanagari Konkani has government backing
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...
Caught between twin pincers of the market and a communalised polity, Urdu is in death throes
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
In India’s East and Northeast, the fear of losing linguistic identity has often led to prolonged agitations and violence among communities which share many...
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...
