language politics
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Tamil Nadu CM alleges language imposition after LIC website displays Hindi as default option
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MK Stalin asks Centre to recall Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi after row over state song
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Janata Dal (United) demands classical language status for Maithili
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Hindi paradox: Language of cultural pride that few Indians can read and write properly in
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Why Modi government’s Hindi push continues despite a reduced majority
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BJP’s Ravi Kishan introduces bill for official status to Bhojpuri under Eighth Schedule
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Why both BJP and Congress are supporting pro-Kannada activists
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Bengaluru shops must have 60% Kannada nameplates by February 28, says civic body
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Hindi instilled feeling of unity in a country divided by many languages, says Amit Shah
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The new IPC has a Hindi name. But legal experts point out that it is illegal
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Bengal Cabinet approves proposal to make Bengali 2nd mandatory language in English medium schools
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‘Tamil Nadu won’t be enslaved by Hindi’: MK Stalin denounces Amit Shah’s remarks
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‘Blatant discrimination’: MK Stalin on CRPF exams being held only in Hindi and English
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Growing up Bengali in Bengaluru: Language is contentious terrain but chauvinism gets us nowhere
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A mother tongue Partition consumed intact: The depletion and revival of Sindhi language and culture
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What Elon Musk’s language tells us about his supersized ambitions
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Tamil Nadu Assembly adopts resolution against ‘Hindi imposition’ by Centre
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Attempts to impose Hindi divisive, MK Stalin writes to Modi on Parliamentary panel proposal
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Using only English and Hindi for government recruitment exam is against democratic spirit: Kanimozhi
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What today’s Hindi supremacists could learn from a ‘Hinglish’ poem by ‘the father of modern Hindi’
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Don’t celebrate Hindi Diwas, HD Kumaraswamy urges Karnataka government
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Make Tamil official language in government offices, urges MK Stalin with Narendra Modi on stage
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From outsiders to termites and infiltrators: How ‘Bangladeshi’ came to signify hate and difference
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DMK alleges Hindi imposition in Puducherry college, 500 leaders arrested during protests
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Those who do not speak Hindi should leave India, says Uttar Pradesh minister Sanjay Nishad
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Is Ukrainian a dialect of Russian or an altogether different language?
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Why Assam is up in arms against Amit Shah’s proposal to make Hindi compulsory till Class 10
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Tamil Nadu BJP will not allow imposition of Hindi, says state unit chief
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For Shudras and Adivasis to have a shot at a better life, English language education is essential
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North East bodies oppose Centre’s move to make Hindi compulsory till Class 10 in the region
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State orders making Kannada compulsory in degree courses cannot be implemented, says Karnataka HC
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Hindi will be made compulsory in northeastern states till Class 10, says Amit Shah
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Why Putin’s way of talking about the war in Ukraine is a perfect example of Orwellian doublespeak
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Linguistic war: How similar (and different) are Ukrainian and Russian languages?
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Zomato apologises after employee tells customer Hindi is national language, everyone should know it
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Punctuation: The surprise weapon of Black writers and journalists in their activism
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After criticism, Delhi hospital withdraws order barring nurses from speaking in Malayalam
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‘Nai Duniya’: Why Shamshur Rahman Faruqi strove to build a new world for literature and language
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VD Savarkar’s language purification project was a precursor to creating a ‘Hindu language’
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How much should people speaking other languages sacrifice for not knowing Hindi, asks HD Kumaraswamy
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AYUSH secretary says delegates who do not understand Hindi can leave training session, sparks row
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DMK MP Kanimozhi says it is ‘shameful’ to equate knowing Hindi with being an Indian
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‘Don’t equate Hindi with nationalism’: BJP’s SM Krishna on airport official’s remark to Kanimozhi
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‘Is this India or Hindia?’ Stalin, Chidambaram criticise airport official’s remark to Kanimozhi
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How the popular baby name Karen became a label for entitled white woman
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It’s International Mother Language Day. What is our relationship with our mother tongues?
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Pakistan’s bid to use Punjabi culture to deepen fault lines in India will only fan tensions at home
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Andhra Pradesh: CM defends plan to turn government schools into English medium institutions
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Hindi is a little child in diapers when compared to Tamil, says Kamal Haasan
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Why are South Indians speaking Hindi to each other?
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Hindi row: DMK postpones ‘language protest’ after Amit Shah’s clarification
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‘I never advocated Hindi imposition’: Amit Shah asks critics to properly listen to his speech
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Hindi row: Rajinikanth says common language is good but it can’t be imposed on anyone
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Those who oppose Hindi as common language do not love India, claims Tripura CM Biplab Kumar Deb
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History lesson for Amit Shah: India’s decision to create linguistic states ensured unity – not Hindi
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Hindi row: Karnataka CM BS Yediyurappa says no compromise on Kannada’s importance
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Amit Shah’s claim that Hindi unifies India is absurd, says Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan
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MK Stalin threatens protest after Amit Shah pitches for Hindi as India’s common language
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Bloodbath, war room, shot down: ‘Warspeak’ is permeating everyday language, creating violence
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‘I am Miya’: Why poetry by Bengal-origin Muslims in their mother tongue is shaking up Assam
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Assam: FIR filed against 10 people for poem criticising National Register of Citizens
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In Bengal, speak Bengali: Squeezed by BJP’s Hindutva, Mamata Banerjee grasps at Bengali nationalism
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First person: Why I don’t want to be called ‘differently abled’
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In Assam, campaign urging Bengali Muslims not to list Assamese as mother tongue has sparked protests
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Why imposing Hindi on India is a bad idea
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Tamil man claims Mumbai official denied him immigration as he didn’t speak Hindi, probe ordered
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In Russia, a state crackdown on minority languages has sparked a growing resistance movement
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Video: An untrained linguist travelled across India to document more than a thousand dying languages
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Congress criticises Meghalaya governor for delivering Assembly speech in Hindi
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Arun Jaitley delivers Budget speech in Hinglish, draws criticism on Twitter
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I want workers who will beat up others, MNS chief Raj Thackeray says after Vikhroli clash
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Urdu declared the second official language in Telangana
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Why the Catalan referendum in Spain is a warning for Indians trying to impose Hindi
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‘Mogambo prasann hua’: A Facebook page tries to show how much poorer the world would be without Urdu
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Bengaluru starts taking down Hindi signs at metro stations
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Lost in translation: What a Sanskrit book on the revival of Hebrew tells us about India-Israel ties
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Hindi in passports is yet another step towards imposing a single language on a multilingual India
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‘When did we get a national language?’: Venkaiah Naidu criticised for calling Hindi ‘rashtra bhasha’
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Gorkhaland demand: From street protests to silent rallies, photos capture the mood in Darjeeling
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Identity politics: Gorkhaland is to Mamata what Kashmir is to Modi
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Darjeeling: Army called in as protestors clash with police over making Bengali compulsory in schools
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Hindi imposition: How regional parties are trying to beat the BJP at its own game
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Hindi-speaking ghost terrorises Tamil family. Watch this wicked protest against language imposition
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West Bengal: Government makes Bengali compulsory from Class 1 to 10 in all schools
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Assam's plan to make Sanskrit compulsory draws flak from teachers, but the RSS is pleased
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It's Mother Language Day. Which 'mother language' did India's lawmakers want after Independence?
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By introducing bilingual education, Maharashtra hopes to keep Adivasi children in school
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It’s time for the government to stop spreading the lie that Hindi is India’s ‘national language’
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Goa RSS section intensifies row with BJP government, announces independent unit
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How the Queen’s English has had to defer to Africa’s rich multilingualism
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Do you know of the Ol-Chiki script? It could be Santhals’ – and India’s – route to their language
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BJP, RSS spar over English-medium schools in Goa. But is this just an act ahead of the 2017 polls?
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Eight things you may not have known about language education in India
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Ten things you didn’t know about our polyglot nation
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Why imposing Hindi on all is as bad an idea as insisting that India is a Hindu country
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Marathi literary fest in Punjab draws the expected response: bafflement
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For Marathi press, Jnanpith winner Bhalchandra Nemade's anti-Rushdie outburst is old news
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Ban German? But it can help you learn Marathi
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How Hindi became the language of choice in Arunachal Pradesh
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Why purists like Batra are Hindi’s biggest enemy