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 ...

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