‘Wonderland of Words’: Shashi Tharoor’s ‘seriously funny’ book on the quirks of the English language

Krutika Puranik

· Feb 22, 2025 · 05:30 pm

Linguist Peggy Mohan examines early Indus Valley languages and their lack of ‘literature’

Peggy Mohan

· Feb 19, 2025 · 08:30 am

Swearing, insults and hate speech: The social and psychological power of taboo language

Jon Andoni Duñabeitia, The Conversation

· Jan 19, 2025 · 05:30 pm

Korean peninsula’s north-south split has created a distinct lingustic divide

Daniel Pieper

· Nov 13, 2024 · 07:30 pm

Personal essay: From home to Parliament, the progression of communal slurs

Radha Khan

· Sep 29, 2024 · 09:00 am

Hindi paradox: Language of cultural pride that few Indians can read and write properly in

Apoorvanand

· Sep 20, 2024 · 09:00 am

Personal essay: A writer on the dilemmas of loving the Hindi language in a Sikh Punjab

Rajiv Thind

· Sep 15, 2024 · 08:30 am

‘Rickshaw’ has its roots in Japanese, and ‘hinterland’, in German: Shashi Tharoor writes about words

Shashi Tharoor

· Aug 28, 2024 · 01:30 pm

Semantic journeys: How some communities turned words used as slurs as an assertion of pride

Rizwan Ahmad Manish Thakur

· Aug 07, 2024 · 09:00 am

Why a community-run Gondi-language school in Gadchiroli is a revolutionary step

Bodhi Ramteke

· Jun 15, 2024 · 06:30 am

How a global organisation of volunteers is kindling love for Urdu

Abdullah Zahid

· Jun 10, 2024 · 11:30 am

In the Philippines, community works to save Butuanon language from fading into silence

Ivy Marie Mangadlao, The Human Journalism Network

· May 27, 2024 · 11:30 pm

Former TN minister Aladi Aruna’s book examines the history of anti-Hindi agitations in the state

Aladi Aruna R Vijaya Sankar

· May 23, 2024 · 08:30 am

‘Dhaniya, Cilantro’: Comedian hilariously sums up the struggles of being multilingual

Scroll Staff

· May 22, 2024 · 06:00 pm

How one man is spreading Bangla education among the tribes of the Chittagong Hills in Bangladesh

Faisal Mahmud

· Feb 21, 2024 · 01:30 pm

Who created the alphabet? A historian describes the millennia-long story of the ABCs

Jane Sancinito, The Conversation

· Feb 17, 2024 · 05:30 pm

‘The Centre’: How far can you go to save something as important and commonplace as language?

Rahul Singh

· Oct 28, 2023 · 01:30 pm

Watch: Woman shifts seamlessly between English accents from over a dozen countries

Scroll Staff

· Sep 27, 2023 · 01:21 pm

Do languages really ‘live’ or ‘die’?: Why the metaphor is misleading

Mario Saraceni, The Conversation

· Jul 18, 2023 · 07:30 pm

How Prashant Kishor has changed India’s political vocabulary

Krishna Kumar Pandey

· Jul 18, 2023 · 11:30 am