Languages
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Eight things we learnt about translation on International Translation Day
Mohini Gupta
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Why do human beings speak so many languages?
Michael Gavin, The Conversation
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Here’s a literary quiz: What’s common to Ladakhi, Kurukh, Halbi and Saurashtra?
Devapriya Roy
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Watch: Is the Voynich manuscript the most mysterious book in the world?
Scroll Staff
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Biggest BBC World Service expansion in 40 years aims to extend British soft power
Abdullahi Abubakar, The Conversation
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It’s time for the government to stop spreading the lie that Hindi is India’s ‘national language’
Garga Chatterjee
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Urdu is a homeless language in India. The Vice-President tells us how to change that
M Hamid Ansari
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No longer lost for words: How researchers rediscovered the mother of all mother tongues
University of Cambridge
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The literal cleansing of Urdu in India: Can a language be anti-national?
Indian Cultural Forum
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Incredible India: Four lessons from the recently launched tourist helpline
Garga Chatterjee
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Why imposing Hindi on all is as bad an idea as insisting that India is a Hindu country
Garga Chatterjee
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Why English language lessons are not the answer to radicalisation in the UK
Frank Monaghan, The Conversation