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Watch: Six people hilariously attempt tongue twisters in one another’s languages

Scroll Staff
· Aug 04, 2023 · 11:29 am
Fun watch: Actor Shraddha Kapoor’s ‘French’, ‘British’, ‘American’ accents while speaking in English

Scroll Staff
· May 10, 2023 · 02:45 pm
‘Purity of language is a myth’: Poet-lyricist Javed Akhtar breaks down a Urdu sentence

Scroll Staff
· Feb 23, 2023 · 12:36 pm
International Mother Language Day: The story of the secret language of hijras

Vaishali Shroff
· Feb 21, 2023 · 08:30 am
‘Your accent is so sexy’: Comedian Zeervan adds Parsi to the popular online series

Scroll Staff
· Nov 08, 2022 · 04:40 pm
International Translation Day: What is the social role of translation in contemporary India?

N Kalyan Raman
· Sep 30, 2022 · 07:00 am
Watch: African-American man understands mother-in-law’s Malayalam, delighting social media

Scroll Staff
· Aug 10, 2022 · 04:13 pm
How Rwanda became a melting pot of four official languages

Jeremie Eyssette, The Conversation
· Jul 12, 2022 · 11:30 pm
‘Translations’: How this play from 1980 artistically depicts Anglo-Irish relations

Alison Garden, The Conversation
· Jun 28, 2022 · 08:30 am
Watch: In this Bihar school, Hindi and Urdu are being taught on one blackboard in the same classroom

Scroll Staff
· May 17, 2022 · 12:18 pm
Watch: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak on her project to have Bengali literature translated into English

Scroll Staff
· Apr 11, 2022 · 04:12 pm
Watch: Students learn endangered tribal language Gondi at school in Maharashtra

Scroll Staff
· Mar 16, 2022 · 12:47 pm
‘I’ll talk in Tamil henceforth, let me know if you can understand’: DMK MP Kanimozhi in Lok Sabha

Scroll Staff
· Dec 09, 2021 · 04:10 pm
Did the Namboodiris change Malayalam to add Sanskrit elements to the language?

Peggy Mohan
· Apr 08, 2021 · 08:30 am
Watch: This Pakistani taxi driver in Dubai chats with his customers in ten different languages

Scroll Staff
· Oct 10, 2020 · 03:17 pm
When Premchand advocated the promotion of the Hindustani language as a mixture of Urdu and Hindi

Premchand
· Aug 15, 2020 · 05:30 pm
Will ‘coronavirus’ enter the vocabulary of Indian languages, as ‘plague’ did over 100 years ago?

Karthik Venkatesh
· Jun 26, 2020 · 08:30 am
Watch: Before Nairobi, ‘Money Heist’ star Alba Flores starred in a Spanish movie and spoke Telugu

Scroll Staff
· May 21, 2020 · 11:30 am
Watch: A digital collective organised this multilingual poetry reading session on ‘language of love’

Scroll Staff
· May 18, 2020 · 05:50 pm
‘I resisted reading translation theory before I translated’: A journey from reading to translating

Maithreyi Karnoor
· Oct 26, 2019 · 08:30 am