Hindi paradox: Language of cultural pride that few Indians can read and write properly in

Apoorvanand

· Sep 20, 2024 · 09:00 am

Personal essay: A writer on the dilemmas of loving the Hindi language in a Sikh Punjab

Rajiv Thind

· Sep 15, 2024 · 08:30 am

Hindi Day: The many, varying ideas of India’s ‘national’ language

Prachi Gupta

· Sep 14, 2023 · 07:30 am

Hindi is national language, witnesses from Bengal must use it in UP tribunal, says SC judge

Scroll Staff

· Aug 04, 2023 · 12:34 pm

How Prashant Kishor has changed India’s political vocabulary

Krishna Kumar Pandey

· Jul 18, 2023 · 11:30 am

Bengali to Kannada, Sanskrit to French: How I became multilingual

Prithwiraj Mukherjee

· May 07, 2023 · 11:30 am

Plea to make Hindi the official language of J&K and Ladakh dismissed

Scroll Staff

· Nov 04, 2022 · 02:10 pm

What today’s Hindi supremacists could learn from a ‘Hinglish’ poem by ‘the father of modern Hindi’

Prachi Gupta

· Sep 14, 2022 · 08:30 am

‘Let people speak any language they want’: Singer Sonu Nigam on claims of Hindi as national language

Scroll Staff

· May 03, 2022 · 11:18 am

Why Assam is up in arms against Amit Shah’s proposal to make Hindi compulsory till Class 10

Rokibuz Zaman

· Apr 17, 2022 · 06:30 am

For Shudras and Adivasis to have a shot at a better life, English language education is essential

Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd

· Apr 13, 2022 · 09:00 am

How a Bihari lost her mother tongue to Hindi – but is now trying to get it back

Archana Singh

· Jun 30, 2020 · 07:30 am

Watch: ‘Every Indian should speak Hindi,’ say Ranji Trophy commentators (and face online backlash)

Scroll Staff

· Feb 14, 2020 · 08:10 am

Watch: How actor Taapsee Pannu shut down troll who asked her to speak in Hindi

Scroll Staff

· Nov 24, 2019 · 06:21 pm

Watch: A stand-up comedian reveals his painful and embarrassing struggles with Hindi

Scroll Staff

· Sep 19, 2017 · 05:00 pm

It's Mother Language Day. Which 'mother language' did India's lawmakers want after Independence?

Devapriya Roy

· Feb 21, 2017 · 06:30 pm

How Hindi evolved as the language of rebellion against classicists and casteists

Mrinal Pande

· Aug 22, 2016 · 05:30 pm

The Daily Fix: Could the Modi government’s plans to promote Hindi in South India produce discord?

Shoaib Daniyal

· Jun 10, 2016 · 09:54 am

The death of Urdu in India is greatly exaggerated – the language is actually thriving

Shoaib Daniyal

· Jun 01, 2016 · 08:00 am