language politics
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Maharashtra: Hindi test for government staff put on hold after protest by pro-Marathi groups
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Maharashtra defers decision to make Marathi mandatory for taxi, auto rickshaw drivers
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New CBSE curriculum is ‘calculated attempt at linguistic imposition’, alleges MK Stalin
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Give Hindi a chance: Lessons for Indian readers from New Zealand’s revival of the Māori language
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How Hindi scholar Francesca Orsini’s work illuminates India’s language politics – past and present
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From colonial Lahore, a flashback to when Urdu, Persian and Sanskrit were taught side-by-side
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Why Kashmir is worried about the sidelining of Urdu
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Hindi’s Hindutva problem that supporters are not ready to reckon with
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Writing Bengali as mother tongue in census will reveal number of ‘foreigners’ in Assam: CM Sarma
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What impact will attacks on Hindi speakers in Maharashtra have on the Bihar polls?
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Uddhav Sena distances itself from MK Stalin remark, says it only opposes Hindi imposition in schools
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Struggle to ‘defeat Hindi imposition’ transcended state boundaries: MK Stalin after Thackeray rally
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Language and power: What Ambedkar and Periyar teach us about Maharashtra’s Hindi debate
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Maharashtra withdraws orders to teach Hindi as third language in primary schools
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Maharashtra is not anti-Hindi, but it should not be imposed on primary school students: Sharad Pawar
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The paradox of English: It is both a foreign tongue and a deeply embedded Indian language
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‘English is not barrier, but bridge’: Opposition criticises Amit Shah for remarks on languages
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Amit Shah says English speakers will ‘soon feel ashamed’ in India
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Hindi to be ‘generally’ taught third language in Maharashtra schools
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Rajasthan police told to remove Urdu, Persian words from official documents, replace them with Hindi
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BJP seeks to drop Urdu from J&K recruitment exam, NC and PDP allege cultural erasure
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Move to remove Arabic, Mahal from Lakshadweep schools ‘deeply disturbing’: Kerala minister
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Hindi: The ‘national language’ that marginalises its own
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Maharashtra rolls back order making Hindi compulsory third language in schools
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Supreme Court verdict allowing Urdu signage reaffirms that India is a multilingual democracy
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‘Urdu not alien to India’: SC upholds use of language on municipal signboard in Maharashtra
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NCERT gives Hindi names to English textbooks, sparks criticism from Kerala
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Hindi belt opposition parties support delimitation, disagree with ally Stalin
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Hindi useful for communicating in Delhi, says Chandrababu Naidu amid row over language policy
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Replacing rupee symbol in Tamil Nadu Budget shows commitment towards language policy: MK Stalin
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Tamil Nadu replacing rupee symbol in Budget logo weakens Indian unity, says Nirmala Sitharaman
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Tamil Nadu replaces rupee symbol in Budget logo, sparks row
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DMK ruining future of Tamil Nadu students by not implementing PM SHRI scheme: Dharmendra Pradhan
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RSS leader says remark that Marathi is not necessary to live in Mumbai ‘misinterpreted’
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NEP will not impose Hindi in Tamil Nadu, says Union education minister
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Row in Rajasthan after state minister claims Urdu teachers got jobs using fake degrees
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Maharashtra mandates use of Marathi for all official communication
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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’