Language is politics by other means in India. Which is why Union home minister Amit Shah’s clarification that the Centre is not opposed to any foreign language is significant. In the same vein, he ...

Spoken behind the walls of colonial forts and offices, English in India was at first the language of ledgers and treaties. But as British rule expanded from the ports of Gujarat to the palaces of ...

India’s language policy debate — reignited by the National Education Policy’s implementation — reveals deeper tensions between the country’s state and central governments, with southern states ...

This article looks at the top 13 English speaking countries in Asia. English stands out as the de facto language of communication between people who do not share another language. According to the ...

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JAIPUR, India (Reuters) - Amid the color and celebration of the Jaipur Literary Festival, heralded as Asia's largest, one question has furrowed many brows and sparked anxious debate: is fiction ...

In some Indian languages, the word for “language” is bhasha—the vowels long and warm, as in “car” or “tar.” It has a formal weight and a refined spirit. It comes to us from the classical heights of ...

It will be 200 years in 10 years since the time British historian and politician Thomas Babington Macaulay began a colonial campaign to uproot the cultural foundations of India, Prime Minister ...

Acquiring the ability to speak fluent English has been a decades-long pursuit for many Japanese toiling to master the ...