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Sunday, February 22, 2026
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Topic: Linguistics

Union minister G Reddy vows to safeguard India’s linguistic heritage

The Minister highlighted the significance of including languages in the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution, which has expanded from 14 to 22 languages over time.

Frickin’ darn it! What swear words and their ‘clean’ substitutes share across languages

A paper published this week in Psychonomic Bulletin and Review highlights common patterns in profanities across the world, whether they're in Hindi or Hebrew.

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

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.

Correct that ‘grammar Nazi’ back: Why these 5 English rules don’t matter one bit

We’re all entitled to our grammatical preferences – but grammar itself does not care about them one bit.

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

Seeking to protect English grammar from like is misguided for one crucial reason: like has a grammar, too.

Everyone has got it wrong in the Ramadan-Ramzan debate. And no, it’s not about Wahhabism

Explaining the shift from Ramzan to Ramadan in India as an influence of Saudi brand of Islam or Wahhabism is shockingly superficial.

Waqt, chaawal and Bollywood — the deep relationship between Indians and Arabs

Contact between nations is not only wrapped in history books, but celebrated every moment by people through words and expressions.

On Camera

Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.