Why would a linguist speak of the rivers, mountains and forests?
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…
Regional Languages
Imposition of either English or Hindi is against India’s rich Linguistic diversity
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…
Why no Hindi dominance in Multi-lingual country
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…
Domesticating Dissent
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…
Politics of language: Why Hindi surpassed Bengali
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…
Our educational institutions are turning language into tool of discrimination
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…
Language and people
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,…
Some Thoughts on International Mother Language Day
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…
Resisting Linguistic Hegemony: The Legacy of Punjabi Language
It was only from the year I was in Class 3 that we finally settled in Delhi. In the few years before that I had lived in many places in…
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