In recent weeks, the Indian state of Maharashtra has found itself at the center of a growing controversy over the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. At the heart of the debate is a clause that ...

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 ...

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 ...

India is incredibly diverse, with over 1,200 languages spoken across the country. Hindi is the most common, spoken by about 44% of people. India is also known for its ancient traditions. Tamil is ...

Another year, another survey: the Modern Language Association (MLA) has released its quadrennial language enrollments survey of foreign languages in U.S. higher education. I’m sorry to report that ...

Krishna Permi, an independent developer from Bengaluru, has created a keyboard app for iPhone that runs entirely on-device, ...

CBSE has announced a major overhaul of its language policy for secondary classes from the 2026-27 academic session, making three languages compulsory and mandating that at least two of them be native ...

MANGAALURU: The Central Board of Secondary Education’s (CBSE) decision to make two Indian languages compulsory from Class IX ...