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    International Mother Language Day: How Indian publishers are helping children read in local tongues

    Rati Girish
    · Feb 21, 2023 · 05:30 pm
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    Shivakumar Jolad
    · Aug 22, 2020 · 09:00 am
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    · Sep 18, 2019 · 06:55 pm
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    · Jul 04, 2018 · 07:30 am
  • First person: How learning Punjabi in Chandigarh helped me discover my true identity in Karnataka

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    Rishabh Kochhar
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  • Can translations save India’s endangered ‘mother tongues’?

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

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