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TopicIndian languages

Topic: Indian languages

Stalin slams ‘harassment’ as TN engineer ‘mocked by CISF guard at Goa airport for not knowing Hindi’

Akshaya Nath -
Chennai resident Sharmilaa Rajasekaran was travelling with her three-year-old child when the incident reportedly took place at Dabolim airport’s security check-in.

‘Hindi ko fark padta hai!’—Literature alone can’t save the language

Krishan Murari -
Though the Modi government has actively advocated for the Hindi cause, language experts said there are many challenges that are not visible.

Raji to Gisari, a New York non-profit is going all out to protect India’s endangered languages

Manasi Phadke -
WikiTongues started with language documentation in 2014 by crowdsourcing videos from people speaking local languages from their community.

Droupadi Murmu rise brings back tussle between Santali scholars and Ol Chiki govt lobby

Suvam Pal -
After being written in Roman, Bengali, Devanagari, Assamese, Nepali scripts for a long time, Santali got its own indigenous one—Ol Chiki.

Hindi’s hegemony didn’t start with NEP, Amit Shah or Ajay Devgn. It’s been on since 1947

+TFP Dilip Mandal -
The row over supposed Hindi supremacy push owing to its ‘popularity’ predates incidents such as NEP's three language formula and Amit Shah or Ajay Devgn's remarks.

Hindi hegemony will only end when other Indian languages like Tamil are reinvented

Aananth Daksnamurthy -
Protesting against Amit Shah's Hindi imposition is fine but do non-Hindi states like Tamil Nadu work for the advancement of their own languages?

No resources or publishing rights: Why international readers are missing Indian translations

Pranay Dutta Roy -
The British Council and Art X Company study says international publishers tend to reject stories that don't conform to their stereotypical idea of India.

Korean is fastest growing language in India, thanks to Squid Game & K-pop, survey finds

Regina Mihindukulasuriya -
English, Hindi, French and Spanish are the top four languages Indians are currently learning, according to survey by language learning app Duolingo.

‘Mother tongue is soul of life’ — Venkaiah Naidu urges MPs to promote native languages

ANI -
Ahead of 'International Mother Languages Day' on 21 February, Naidu wrote a letter to all parliamentarians on the importance of native languages.

Hindi is not a language of knowledge anymore. Mediocrity has stifled its soul

Ashutosh Bhardwaj -
On Hindi Diwas, let's look at the fall of the language from the authority it commanded not long ago.
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Air purifiers are the new water filters. Delhi has quietly accepted a crisis

Stela Dey -
The affluent in Delhi, armed with airtight windows, multiple purifiers, and humidifiers, have normalised a way of life that once seemed dystopian.

There’s a new M-Y formula at work in Bihar this time

Sitharaman’s eighth Budget faces fiscal headwinds — and a calendar dilemma

Economy

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

Udit Bubna -
MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

Defence

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

Keshav Padmanabhan -
At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

National Interest

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Shekhar Gupta -
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.

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