Language Debate

‘No such thing as Mumbai theatre’: Writer Shanta Gokhale on the language divide on the stage

‘The fact remains then, that Mumbai’s theatre and literature are not one, but four. I do not say this with regret. I am only stating a fact.’

Shanta Gokhale
· Mar 17, 2024 · 08:30 am
Can Rabindranath Tagore be called a nativist?

The Nobel Laureate preferred his mother tongue, Bengali, and was a reluctant poet in English. But he was by no means an aggressive nationalist.

R Raj Rao
· Sep 30, 2023 · 07:30 am
Hindi Day: The many, varying ideas of India’s ‘national’ language

Even supporters of Hindi lacked consensus about the idea of the language and the role it was to play as the ‘national’ language.

Prachi Gupta
· Sep 14, 2023 · 07:30 am

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