Readers’ comments: India’s flawed language policy sidelines indigenous and local tongues

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

India’s state and central governments still aren’t speaking the same language

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 ...
CNN

A colonial hangover or a linguistic leg-up? India grapples with the enduring appeal of English

“Those who speak English will soon feel ashamed,” Home Minister Amit Shah said last month, igniting a heated debate about national identity and social mobility in the polyglot nation of 1.4 billion.
The New Yorker

Should a Country Speak a Single Language?

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 ...
Computer Weekly

Indian large language models gain momentum

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 ...