Watch: Comedian from Pakistan presents tutorial on how to speak English like Shashi Tharoor

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· Feb 28, 2021 · 10:38 am

How to speak like a Goan: Words from the land of susegaad

Clyde D'Souza

· Feb 19, 2021 · 08:30 am

Coronavirus-related updates to the dictionary show how disruptions can quickly change a language

Roger J Kreuz, The Conversation

· Oct 13, 2020 · 09:30 pm

Watch: ‘Neighbourhood Teacher’ shows how language and words reveal casteist mentality

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· Oct 11, 2020 · 05:27 pm

VD Savarkar’s language purification project was a precursor to creating a ‘Hindu language’

Surajkumar Thube

· Aug 31, 2020 · 08:30 am

Pandemic. Quarantine. Vaccine. What are the origins of the normalised vocabulary under Covid-19?

Karthik Venkatesh

· Jul 26, 2020 · 12:30 pm

Opinion: Why Pakistani schools must shift their focus from English to regional languages

Ajay Pinjani, Dawn.com Minha Khan, Dawn.com

· Jul 20, 2020 · 09:30 pm

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

‘Not fully knowing a language opened me up to its inherent poetry’: Writer-translator Onaiza Drabu

Onaiza Drabu, Dawn.com

· Jun 25, 2020 · 06:30 pm

We’re on ‘coronacation’ while we wait for ‘lexit’: How coronavirus is changing our language

Kate Burridge and Howard Manns, The Conversation

· May 12, 2020 · 06:30 pm

In ‘The Meaning of India’, Raja Rao offers an ‘Indian’ theory of how words and language work

Raja Rao

· May 11, 2020 · 08:30 am

Can Urdu regain its place in India’s linguistic landscape? Yes, if it is treated as a mother tongue

Mahtab Alam

· Apr 23, 2020 · 08:30 am

A limited vocabulary hinders your ability to express emotions – and to understand them

Kaidi Wu, Aeon

· Mar 24, 2020 · 11:30 pm

Grammar Nazis can cede the high ground. These five grammatical ‘errors’ are not errors at all

Michelle Sheehan, The Conversation

· Mar 16, 2020 · 05:30 pm

The irony in misusing the word ‘irony’ is growing, and endangering its real meaning

Roger J Kreuz, The Conversation

· Feb 27, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Rajasthani: How a mother language can be lost, and how ‘folk’ histories can reclaim it

Vishes Kothari

· Feb 21, 2020 · 05:30 pm

It’s International Mother Language Day. What is our relationship with our mother tongues?

Mohini Gupta

· Feb 21, 2020 · 07:30 am

Watch: Venkaiah Naidu speaks in 22 Indian languages in a single speech for Mother Language Day

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· Feb 21, 2020 · 07:19 am

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

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· Feb 14, 2020 · 08:10 am

From the East to the West, how much is lost (and found) in translation?

Humair Ishtiaq, Dawn.com

· Feb 09, 2020 · 08:30 am