language
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‘Wonderland of Words’: Shashi Tharoor’s ‘seriously funny’ book on the quirks of the English language
Krutika Puranik
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Linguist Peggy Mohan examines early Indus Valley languages and their lack of ‘literature’
Peggy Mohan
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Swearing, insults and hate speech: The social and psychological power of taboo language
Jon Andoni Duñabeitia, The Conversation
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Korean peninsula’s north-south split has created a distinct lingustic divide
Daniel Pieper
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Personal essay: From home to Parliament, the progression of communal slurs
Radha Khan
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Hindi paradox: Language of cultural pride that few Indians can read and write properly in
Apoorvanand
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Personal essay: A writer on the dilemmas of loving the Hindi language in a Sikh Punjab
Rajiv Thind
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‘Rickshaw’ has its roots in Japanese, and ‘hinterland’, in German: Shashi Tharoor writes about words
Shashi Tharoor
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Semantic journeys: How some communities turned words used as slurs as an assertion of pride
Rizwan Ahmad Manish Thakur
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Why a community-run Gondi-language school in Gadchiroli is a revolutionary step
Bodhi Ramteke
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How a global organisation of volunteers is kindling love for Urdu
Abdullah Zahid
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In the Philippines, community works to save Butuanon language from fading into silence
Ivy Marie Mangadlao, The Human Journalism Network
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Former TN minister Aladi Aruna’s book examines the history of anti-Hindi agitations in the state
Aladi Aruna R Vijaya Sankar
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‘Dhaniya, Cilantro’: Comedian hilariously sums up the struggles of being multilingual
Scroll Staff
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How one man is spreading Bangla education among the tribes of the Chittagong Hills in Bangladesh
Faisal Mahmud
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Who created the alphabet? A historian describes the millennia-long story of the ABCs
Jane Sancinito, The Conversation
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‘The Centre’: How far can you go to save something as important and commonplace as language?
Rahul Singh
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Watch: Woman shifts seamlessly between English accents from over a dozen countries
Scroll Staff
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Do languages really ‘live’ or ‘die’?: Why the metaphor is misleading
Mario Saraceni, The Conversation
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How Prashant Kishor has changed India’s political vocabulary
Krishna Kumar Pandey