Enterprising Pakistanis are gearing up for a Chinese influx

Shazia Hasan

· Jun 13, 2017 · 07:30 pm

Seventy years on, a fraught question still troubles Pakistan: Should Urdu be its official language?

Ali Raj

· May 27, 2017 · 11:30 am

Regional language internet usage is where the real growth will be in India

Ananya Bhattacharya, qz.com

· May 03, 2017 · 09:30 pm

Anumeric people: What happens when a language has no words for numbers?

Caleb Everett, The Conversation

· Apr 30, 2017 · 09:30 pm

Watch: Why not call a vagina a vagina, asks a 16-year-old in her slam poetry

Scroll Staff

· Apr 21, 2017 · 05:00 pm

This meditative biography of Tamil is a breathtaking sweep over a linguistic landscape

Veena Muthuraman

· Apr 20, 2017 · 08:30 am

Watch: This song celebrates the right to speak in one’s mother tongue in 12 different languages

Scroll Staff

· Feb 23, 2017 · 08:00 pm

It's Mother Language Day. Which 'mother language' did India's lawmakers want after Independence?

Devapriya Roy

· Feb 21, 2017 · 06:30 pm

'Variegated cancerous concoctions of corruption': Supreme excerpts from the Sasikala verdict

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Feb 14, 2017 · 04:11 pm

The unspeakable things that leave us at a loss for words

Silvia Jonas

· Jan 22, 2017 · 09:30 pm

A rose by any other name: When Turkish was written in the Greek, Armenian and even Syrian script

Michael Erdman

· Jan 02, 2017 · 08:30 pm

Putting lipstick on a pig: This is expropriation, not demonetisation

Anirudh Burman

· Nov 28, 2016 · 08:00 am

Watch: Why the Thanksgiving bird turkey is called 'Hindi' in Turkey and 'Indian chicken' in France

Scroll Staff

· Nov 25, 2016 · 09:00 am

Red, yellow, pink and green: How the world’s languages name the rainbow

Claire Bowern, The Conversation

· Nov 18, 2016 · 03:30 pm

How the map of India was redrawn on the lines of language

Mridula Chari

· Nov 01, 2016 · 07:30 am

Watch: How 'flavour' and 'centre' became 'flavor' and 'center', thanks to a man named Noah Webster

Scroll Staff

· Oct 11, 2016 · 06:00 pm

Back to the 19th century: How language is being used to mark national borders

Mario Saraceni, The Conversation

· Oct 06, 2016 · 11:30 pm

The language curse: How proud community names have been reduced to insults in Pakistan

Haroon Khalid

· Oct 02, 2016 · 08:30 pm

The Indian challenge is to march on for peace amid the rising drumbeat of war

Shiv Visvanathan

· Sep 21, 2016 · 12:30 pm

Imposing an arbitrary national language would only divide Pakistan further

Arthur Dudney, The Conversation

· Sep 14, 2016 · 03:30 pm