Is Your Coworking Space Truly Inclusive—or Just Open? As coworking spaces and collaborative hubs redefine the geography of work, a critical question demands attention: who truly feels at home in…
Namaste 2.0: The Campus Scene Picture a lecture hall at an Indian Institute of Technology where students in hoodies and headphones pause their AI/ML project discussions to repeat after an…
This article is based on excerpts from a talk by Prof. Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd at the first KP Sasi Webinar on Politics of Language and Language of Politics held on…
This is an excerpt from a talk given by Prof. G.N. Devy in a webinar organised by Countercurrents.org in memory of KP Sasi on the topic “Politics of Language &…
Since 2014, the Modi-led Central governments have systematically sought and substantially succeeded in undermining Indian federalism by reorganising Centre-state relations so as to enhance the relative powers and capacities for…
Cultural Conflicts are often a result of the imposition of dominant narratives that seek to erase indigenous identities- Edward Said Tamil Nadu's recent opposition to Hindi's enactment has sparked debates…
Let Us upgrade Marathi Language into a “Language of Knowledge”, Upcoming Challenges and Solutions The ancient ‘Mother Tongue Marathi’ language, which was founded more than 2,500 years ago, has now…
I know this article will upset many Hindi protagonists, but that does not matter. I am not a popularity or publicity seeker ( whatever some people may think ), and…
Upto 1947 Urdu was the common language of all educated people, Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, etc in large parts of India. In my own family upto my father everyone was highly…
Over four decades ago, as a South Indian growing up in the 'Hindi heartland' of Madhya Pradesh, I learned something that blew my mind – that Hindi was in fact…
Every language has a different way of organising the world based on how it interprets time and space. A language is a distinct way of thinking as well as a…
Have you ever pondered over how and why some languages get replaced by other languages? This phenomenon and process of replacement of one language by other one is termed as…
English language is dubbed with so many sobriquets and epithets. It is enjoying the status of International language, lingua franca, bridge language etc. People crave to learn this because of…
Language Perhaps the most important factor that distinguishes humans from other forms of life, is language. Language is central to interactions within and between societies, and especially for governance. Language…
Small tributaries carry water from the basin to a river just like the way minor linguistic varieties contribute to the major regional languages. In both the cases, the varieties and…
The eleven volume report has submitted recently by the official language Committee headed by Home Minister to President Droupadi Murmu. The report has recommended to replace English with Hindi as…
Recently Amit Shah, the home minister brought up the issue of Hindi to act as a link language among people speaking different languages in states. There was also a discussion…
These days there is a lot of enthusiasm in progressive liberal circles about the powerful presence of dissent in Indian traditional thought.Accompanied by head-shaking about the pernicious effect of Anglophilia…
When the British ordered the exclusive use of the Nagari script in school in 1880 to meet a Hindu demand in the state of Bihar, the Muslims howled. The Hindi-Urdu…
Pankaj Pushkar in conversation with Pramod Ranjan Pankaj Pushar: What has been your relationship with languages during your educational journey? How do you relate to different languages? Which language(s) do…
Not long ago, streets and roads of primary importance in significant parts of Delhi were subjected to a rampant, incessant renaming spree. The Akbar Road, for instance, an iconic road…
"Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going." Rita Mae Brown The words that we weave each…
Scientific pursuit, struggles in the arena of production, and class-war making language dynamic and rich is related to the issues of the world around – nature and processes in nature,…
On the eve of February 21, International Mother Language Day, the afternoon was sunny, windless and frozen. The sun came up after a two-day winter snow storm. The snow was…
Why is Gondi - spoken by 2.7 million officially and 20 million unofficially - is not included in the Eighth Schedule? But Sanskrit not spoken in any part of India…
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