Growing up Bengali in Bengaluru: Language is contentious terrain but chauvinism gets us nowhere

Can we imagine a future in which people scramble to learn Kannada, simply because it provides a unique experience that English or Hindi may not?

Prithwiraj Mukherjee

· Mar 17, 2023 · 09:00 am

A mother tongue Partition consumed intact: The depletion and revival of Sindhi language and culture

Writer-translator Saaz Aggarwal on the conundrum of the ‘mother tongue,’ the need to re-examine the Partition, and resuscitation of the Sindhi alphabet.

Saaz Aggarwal

· Jan 28, 2023 · 03:30 pm

What Elon Musk’s language tells us about his supersized ambitions

Wealthy entrepreneurs like Musk try to convince us with their words that everything is possible.

Petros Iosifidis, The Conversation

· Dec 04, 2022 · 11:30 pm

Tamil Nadu Assembly adopts resolution against ‘Hindi imposition’ by Centre

The resolution said the recent recommendations of the Parliamentary Committee on Official Language are ‘against the state languages including Tamil’.

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· Oct 18, 2022 · 03:53 pm

Attempts to impose Hindi divisive, MK Stalin writes to Modi on Parliamentary panel proposal

The committee reportedly recommended that medium of instruction in higher education institutes such as the IITs should be Hindi in Hindi-speaking states.

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· Oct 16, 2022 · 05:54 pm

Using only English and Hindi for government recruitment exam is against democratic spirit: Kanimozhi

The Centre is discriminating against regional languages, former Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy said.

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· Oct 07, 2022 · 07:31 pm

What today’s Hindi supremacists could learn from a ‘Hinglish’ poem by ‘the father of modern Hindi’

In the late 19th century, Bharatendu Harishchandra wrote poems that combined languages and scripts, undermining the majoritarian impulses now on display.

Prachi Gupta

· Sep 14, 2022 · 08:30 am

Don’t celebrate Hindi Diwas, HD Kumaraswamy urges Karnataka government

The Janata Dal (Secular) leader said that ‘forcibly celebrating’ the event on taxpayers’ money would amount to an injustice to the citizens.

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· Sep 13, 2022 · 06:15 pm

Make Tamil official language in government offices, urges MK Stalin with Narendra Modi on stage

The Tamil Nadu chief minister also called for exempting students from the state from the NEET medical entrance examination.

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· May 26, 2022 · 10:44 pm

From outsiders to termites and infiltrators: How ‘Bangladeshi’ came to signify hate and difference

While the Ahom rulers used ‘bongāl’ to refer to those who came from the west of their lands, ‘Bangladeshi’ is the slur aimed at all current targets.

Suraj Gogoi

· May 20, 2022 · 09:00 am

DMK alleges Hindi imposition in Puducherry college, 500 leaders arrested during protests

The JIPMER administration has issued a circular asking that entries in all register and service books should be made in Hindi and English.

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· May 09, 2022 · 10:13 pm

Those who do not speak Hindi should leave India, says Uttar Pradesh minister Sanjay Nishad

Anyone who does not love Hindi will be assumed a foreigner, says the minister, who is an ally of the BJP.

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· Apr 29, 2022 · 08:16 pm