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Jagan Reddy is giving Andhra Pradesh children something better than gold — English education

Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd -
The Andhra Pradesh model of education under CM Jagan Reddy is breaking barriers for children. He’s equalising language.

English language gained in power in India only after the British left

Peggy Mohan -
In ‘Wanderers, Kings, Merchants’, linguist Peggy Mohan writes that until Independence, English was only a second language of a few Indians.

With Nagari Pracharini Sabha’s ruin, Hindi is losing a major centre and its best think-tank

Ashutosh Bhardwaj -
Caught between a bitter fight and a court battle, Varanasi’s Nagari Pracharini Sabha, once the most prestigious body for promotion of Hindi, needs urgent intervention.

Indian farmer and soldier as ‘he’— why 21st century editors are at war with their keyboards

Neera Majumdar -
Grammar is not a divine monolith. If we don’t include all people when we write, even a single pronoun can snip a little girl’s dreams.

Yogi govt starts issuing press releases in Sanskrit, 2 senior officials to monitor initiative

Prashant Srivastava -
UP govt decision to send out press releases and CM's speeches in Sanskrit, apart from Hindi, English & Urdu, comes on the instructions of Yogi Adityanath.

Stop this kolaveri against English-speaking Indians. They didn’t ruin idea of India

Rachel John -
English is as desi as any Indian language. Maligning English speakers won’t solve India’s problems, no?

Women use emojis the most, but world’s fastest-growing language was all male until recently

Caroline Criado Perez -
In Invisible Women, Caroline Criado Perez writes about how we still read most things as ‘male’ — from emojis to TV to language.

The real reason Amit Shah wants to know your mother tongue

Shivam Vij -
In the absence of a proper data protection law, the NPR is an excessive centralisation of personal data waiting to be politically misused.

Talk of Hindi dominance a joke. English/non-English divide is the real apartheid in India

Yogendra Yadav -
In his Hindi Diwas speech, Amit Shah claimed Indians were the only ones who defeated English language and Anglicisation.

‘Like’ isn’t lazy language – grammar snobs need to, like, pipe down

Rebecca Woods -
Seeking to protect English grammar from like is misguided for one crucial reason: like has a grammar, too.
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Bengaluru, Gujarat, Chennai—mapping India’s emerging semiconductor hubs

Sujai Shivakumar -
Emerging hubs in India mirror the factors that have long driven the US’ semiconductor clusters in New York, Texas, Oregon, and California.

Global development finance has lost its way. China can step in but India has an edge too

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Economy

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

Sampurna Panigrahi -
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

Defence

In Nepal, young dreams of serving in Indian Army crash as Agnipath halts a centuries-old tradition

+TFP Debdutta Chakraborty -
Since 1815, Nepali Gorkhas have served in Indian & British Armies, as well as in Bihar, Bengal & Assam Police. Since Agnipath scheme came in, no Nepal-domiciled Gorkha has enlisted.

National Interest

Something’s hidden in the Oval Office photo of Trump, Munir, Sharif. India must look closely

Shekhar Gupta -
What Munir has achieved with Trump is a return to normal, ironing out the post-Abbottabad crease. The White House picture gives us insight into how Pakistan survives, occasionally thrives and thinks.

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