Mysuru, marked Bharatiya Bhasha Utsav-2025 with a programme centred on India’s linguistic diversity and the role of languages ...

People who speak English in India will "soon feel ashamed," according to a senior government minister from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. But the party's efforts to promote Hindi are facing ...

Aligned with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, the scheme aims to encourage young writers to contribute to nation building through their writing and ideas.

Opposition to the National Education Policy in Maharashtra isn’t just about language – it’s a flashpoint in India’s struggle between centralization and cultural pluralism. In recent weeks, the Indian ...

India is home to great writing systems such as the Brāhmī and the Kharosthī that date back centuries. It’s also a land where languages such as Sanskrit, Tamil and Kannada have etched an oral history ...

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 ...

A BJP poster issued on World Hindi Day on January 10, 2018, quotes Prime Minister Narendra Modi as saying that “Today, the entire world recognizes the power and might of the Hindi language.” Credit: ...

London (CNN Business)In a country where 1.3 billion people speak 22 officially recognized languages and hundreds of dialects, communication can be a problem, especially online. Despite a rapid rise in ...

From villages to tier-3 towns, voice-first and local-language AI is breaking the English barrier, enabling access to services ...