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Why Modi government’s Hindi push continues despite a reduced majority
Abhik Deb
· Aug 18, 2024 · 06:30 am
Why Adivasi politicians have begun dominating Odisha’s politics
Sampad Patnaik
· Jul 05, 2024 · 09:00 am
Kerala passes resolution to rename state as ‘Keralam’
Scroll Staff
· Jun 25, 2024 · 11:01 am
Former TN minister Aladi Aruna’s book examines the history of anti-Hindi agitations in the state
Aladi Aruna R Vijaya Sankar
· May 23, 2024 · 08:30 am
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
Why the Assam government’s new measures in education have triggered a political backlash
Rokibuz Zaman
· Sep 23, 2022 · 06:30 am
Don’t celebrate Hindi Diwas, HD Kumaraswamy urges Karnataka government
Scroll Staff
· Sep 13, 2022 · 06:15 pm
Tamil Nadu BJP will not allow imposition of Hindi, says state unit chief
Scroll Staff
· Apr 13, 2022 · 08:55 pm
BJP’s use of ‘begum’ and ‘shahzada’ to attack its opponents conceals a larger attack on Muslims
Rizwan Ahmad
· Apr 11, 2021 · 06:30 am
Hindi might not be the national language – but it is growing rapidly across India
Shoaib Daniyal
· Sep 19, 2020 · 09:00 am
Modi government sparks language anxieties in Jammu and Kashmir – and fears of Hindi imposition
Safwat Zargar
· Sep 15, 2020 · 09:00 am
How much should people speaking other languages sacrifice for not knowing Hindi, asks HD Kumaraswamy
Scroll Staff
· Aug 24, 2020 · 02:50 pm
AYUSH secretary says delegates who do not understand Hindi can leave training session, sparks row
Scroll Staff
· Aug 22, 2020 · 03:04 pm
DMK MP Kanimozhi says it is ‘shameful’ to equate knowing Hindi with being an Indian
Scroll Staff
· Aug 13, 2020 · 11:32 am
Hindi row: Rajinikanth says common language is good but it can’t be imposed on anyone
Scroll Staff
· Sep 18, 2019 · 01:27 pm
Watch: Several guests on an English news channel spoke in Hindi. So another one spoke in Bengali
Scroll Staff
· Jun 13, 2019 · 10:00 am
In Assam, campaign urging Bengali Muslims not to list Assamese as mother tongue has sparked protests
Arunabh Saikia
· Jun 09, 2019 · 09:00 am
Why imposing Hindi on India is a bad idea
Scroll Staff
· Jun 03, 2019 · 07:30 pm
Urdu and Hindi could be one language called Hindustani. Will the politics of language allow it?
David Lunn, Dawn.com
· Jan 28, 2019 · 07:30 pm
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