The promotion of Hindi has not sufficiently encouraged the growth of other Indian languages, despite the constitutional ...

India, March 30 -- A Monash University and Victorian Government initiative has produced the first cohort of Hindi and Punjabi teachers, expanding opportunities for students to learn these important ...

In some Indian languages, the word for “language” is bhasha—the vowels long and warm, as in “car” or “tar.” It has a formal weight and a refined spirit. It comes to us from the classical heights of ...

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India’s language policy debate — reignited by the National Education Policy’s implementation — reveals deeper tensions between the country’s state and central governments, with southern states ...

Sanskrit, an ancient Indian language, is experiencing a revival through government initiatives and organizations like ...

India is home to great writing systems such as the Brāhmī and the Kharosthī that date back centuries. It’s also a land where languages such as Sanskrit, Tamil and Kannada have etched an oral history ...