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Friday, April 3, 2026
TopicOfficial languages

Topic: official languages

Official language treats Indians as Lallu of Hum Log. Hindi Diwas won’t address that issue

+TFP Hilal Ahmed -
Official Hindi is the product of official English, which has inherited the tone, vocabulary and expressions from colonial administrative discourse.

Modi’s BJP can force Hindi on India if it wants to be a regional party with cow belt agenda

+TFP Vir Sanghvi -
The BJP is unlikely to resurrect a dated language debate. Even Vajpayee abandoned the idea.

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.

Actors Ajay Devgn, Kichcha Sudeep spar over ‘supremacy’ of Hindi, ex-CMs join

Chitvan Vinayak -
‘Blabbering as mouthpiece of BJP’: Former Karnataka CMs endorse Sudeep’s reservations, override Ajay Devgn’s 'nationalistic' outburst.

Hindi Diwas sees big protests by pro-Kannada groups, politicians & film stars also join in

Anusha Ravi Sood -
Led by Karnataka Rakshana Vedike, simultaneous online & offline agitations demanded services in Kannada where currently only English & Hindi are used, such as in centralised banks.

India speaks 120 languages. But on internet, laws only in govt’s favourite Hindi and English

Malavika Rajkumar -
The right to access translated text is guaranteed by the Constitution of India, and is one of the core aspects of justice and open data.

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Opinion

Asiya Andrabi is no women’s rights advocate. She does not speak for Indian Muslims

Amana Begam -
International news media calling Asiya Andrabi a defender of women’s rights shows how narratives are constructed and what they choose to omit.

3 things Indian military must keep out of its reforms agenda

I was an Indian student in Melbourne and this is the daily racism I faced

Economy

Tanker with 600,000 barrels of Iranian crude shifts course from India to China midway

Udit Bubna -
The shipment earlier bound for Gujarat’s Vadinar has changed course amid payment concerns; could still reach India if issues are resolved, according to Kpler.

Defence

India commissions its third nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine—INS Aridhaman

Snehesh Alex Philip -
INS Arihant was first vessel under SSBN project and was quietly commissioned in 2016. The second indigenous SSBN, INS Arighat, was commissioned in August 2024.

National Interest

Gulf war exposed India’s fragilities. It’s time for navel-gazing, in the national interest

Shekhar Gupta -
It’s easy to understand why the government can’t speak the hard truth. When this war ends, as all wars do, India’s interests will lie with both the winner and the loser.

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