From time to time, one stumbles into people who think it is enough to know English to understand India. It is true that English is an official language of the Republic of India, the proceedings of the ...

The Allahabad High Court on Friday said that while trial courts in the state of Uttar Pradesh are at liberty to write their judgments either in Hindi or English, they cannot write judgments that are ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The speech of native speakers of Indian English has generally been neglected in studies of English in South Asia. This article describes a ...

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 ...

Built on Llama‑3.1, the open‑weight model targets India’s 60‑crore Hindi speakers with a Hindi‑centric tokenizer and training ...

Similarly, in the TV wing 2023 batch, only one film was made solely in Hindi. Three films were made in Marathi, and one each ...

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 ...

I remember walking down a busy street in Delhi during my first stay in India and noting the different ways in which the same words were written in Latin script. Lakshmi here, Luxmi there. Since then I ...

Mellon Chair of Indian Studies and the Director of the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, University of the Witwatersrand “Move your shadow. Don’t rattle the bag.” – JD Bold, Fanagalo Phrase Book, ...