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Mother tongue

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

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

    Rati Girish
    · Feb 21, 2023 · 05:30 pm
  • On English-medium education, India is having the same debates it did 200 years ago

    On English-medium education, India is having the same debates it did 200 years ago

    Shivakumar Jolad
    · Aug 22, 2020 · 09:00 am
  • ‘I never advocated Hindi imposition’: Amit Shah asks critics to properly listen to his speech

    ‘I never advocated Hindi imposition’: Amit Shah asks critics to properly listen to his speech

    Scroll Staff
    · Sep 18, 2019 · 06:55 pm
  • Surging Hindi, shrinking South Indian languages: Nine charts that explain the 2011 language census

    Surging Hindi, shrinking South Indian languages: Nine charts that explain the 2011 language census

    Shoaib Daniyal
    · Jul 04, 2018 · 07:30 am
  • First person: How learning Punjabi in Chandigarh helped me discover my true identity in Karnataka

    First person: How learning Punjabi in Chandigarh helped me discover my true identity in Karnataka

    Rishabh Kochhar
    · Feb 11, 2018 · 11:30 am
  • Can translations save India’s endangered ‘mother tongues’?

    Can translations save India’s endangered ‘mother tongues’?

    Parvathy Raveendran
    · Sep 23, 2017 · 08:30 am
  • Speak in your mother tongue, not English, says Venkaiah Naidu

    Speak in your mother tongue, not English, says Venkaiah Naidu

    Scroll Staff
    · Sep 19, 2017 · 08:10 pm
  • How Hindi evolved as the language of rebellion against classicists and casteists

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

    Mrinal Pande
    · Aug 22, 2016 · 05:30 pm