Language
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CBSE makes three languages compulsory for Class 9
Scroll Staff
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How the hard ‘na’ insists on Marathi’s caste hierarchy
Shailaja Paik
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Harsh Mander: Language, local governance and finance – the debates that defined Indian federalism
Harsh Mander
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A Hindi professor responds: English is the real bottleneck stifling other Indian languages
Krishna Kumar Pandey
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‘Prakrit is, like Sanskrit, a literary language’: Infosys Prize 2025 winner Andrew Ollett
Vighnesh Hampapura
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UK’s new immigration policy makes English a test of belonging
Declan Flanagan, The Conversation Mike Chick, The Conversation
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Give Hindi a chance: Lessons for Indian readers from New Zealand’s revival of the Māori language
Rajiv Thind
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Thane student allegedly dies by suicide after being ‘assaulted for not speaking Marathi’
Scroll Staff
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Metaphor in a time of heartbreak: Writer Tishani Doshi on the constraints of language
Tishani Doshi
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This book examines how the Tibetan script came to be, with inspiration from ancient India
MA Aldrich
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How Hindi emerged as the lingua franca of the ‘Hindi Heartland’ at the cost of other languages
Ghazala Wahab
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Animals can’t talk like humans do – here’s why the hunt for their languages has left us empty-handed
Anna Jon-And, The Conversation Johan Lind, The Conversation
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A new book sets out to trace the roots of modern languages back to one ancient tongue
Laura Spinney
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Semicolons are becoming increasingly rare; their disappearance should be resisted
Roslyn Petelin, The Conversation
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‘Women need their own rooms in their own worlds’: Deepa Bhasthi on translating the female language
Deepa Bhasthi
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Hindi: The ‘national language’ that marginalises its own
Charu Singh
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‘Boats Nudged into the Sea’: Ambai on text, translation and authors who refuse to die
Ambai
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‘Thx’, ‘gr8’, ‘k: Why you should think twice before using shorthand in your text messages
David Fang, The Conversation
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The lore of ‘lore’: How fandoms created an online phenomenon from an Old English word
Kate McNicholas Smith, The Conversation
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Language changes are early signs of Alzheimer’s – here are five things to look out for
Sarah Curtis, The Conversation