Can Urdu regain its place in India’s linguistic landscape? Yes, if it is treated as a mother tongue

Mahtab Alam

· Apr 23, 2020 · 08:30 am

A limited vocabulary hinders your ability to express emotions – and to understand them

Kaidi Wu, Aeon

· Mar 24, 2020 · 11:30 pm

Grammar Nazis can cede the high ground. These five grammatical ‘errors’ are not errors at all

Michelle Sheehan, The Conversation

· Mar 16, 2020 · 05:30 pm

The irony in misusing the word ‘irony’ is growing, and endangering its real meaning

Roger J Kreuz, The Conversation

· Feb 27, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Rajasthani: How a mother language can be lost, and how ‘folk’ histories can reclaim it

Vishes Kothari

· Feb 21, 2020 · 05:30 pm

It’s International Mother Language Day. What is our relationship with our mother tongues?

Mohini Gupta

· Feb 21, 2020 · 07:30 am

Watch: Venkaiah Naidu speaks in 22 Indian languages in a single speech for Mother Language Day

Scroll Staff

· Feb 21, 2020 · 07:19 am

Watch: ‘Every Indian should speak Hindi,’ say Ranji Trophy commentators (and face online backlash)

Scroll Staff

· Feb 14, 2020 · 08:10 am

From the East to the West, how much is lost (and found) in translation?

Humair Ishtiaq, Dawn.com

· Feb 09, 2020 · 08:30 am

‘They’: The ‘Word of the Year’ is more than a nod to shifting attitudes on gender

Reed Blaylock, The Conversation

· Jan 20, 2020 · 05:30 pm

Essay: You cannot go back home once you have left it. You find it afresh in literature and language

Kunal Ray

· Dec 29, 2019 · 07:30 am

You know that warm, fuzzy feeling evoked by cat videos? There is a Sanskrit word to describe it

Alan Fiske, Aeon

· Dec 28, 2019 · 01:30 pm

A case for the apostrophe, the punctuation mark that is polarising the literary world

Roslyn Petelin, The Conversation

· Dec 06, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Philip Pullman’s ‘His Dark Materials’: How to decode the story’s linguistic secrets

Simon Horobin, The Conversation

· Nov 26, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Watch: How actor Taapsee Pannu shut down troll who asked her to speak in Hindi

Scroll Staff

· Nov 24, 2019 · 06:21 pm

Listen: Twenty-two Indian languages in one song, sung by a 15-year-old

Scroll Staff

· Nov 22, 2019 · 12:57 pm

How Pakistani novelist and translator Musharraf Ali Farooqi built his Urdu thesaurus for the world

Musharraf Ali Farooqi

· Nov 10, 2019 · 12:30 pm

No ‘joie de vivre’, ‘cul-de-sac’ after Brexit: The French are determined to take their language back

Scroll Staff

· Nov 03, 2019 · 11:12 am

Five common English words we may all be using incorrectly (because mistakes are perpetuated)

Simon Horobin, The Conversation

· Oct 31, 2019 · 05:30 pm

How two young global desis learnt to make English their own language in India

Kalpana Mohan

· Oct 03, 2019 · 07:30 am