A short history of ‘India’ versus ‘Bharat’

Sep 05, 2023 · 03:12 pm

Italy wants its businesses to stop using English. Will it succeed?

Apr 09, 2023 · 11:30 pm

Kannad, Keral, Karnatak: Why do Hindi speakers ‘mispronounce’ South Indian names?

Mar 26, 2023 · 06:30 am

How a unique Tamil dialect survived among a fishing community in Sri Lanka

Mar 23, 2022 · 11:30 am

Meet the young Indians who are bringing an Adivasi language into the digital age

Feb 15, 2022 · 01:30 pm

From love songs to kurta ads, Urdu is popular with Indians. Why do Hindutva backers hate it so much?

Oct 24, 2021 · 09:00 am

How the Mesopotamian word for ‘elephant’ indicates Dravidian language existed in Indus Civilisation

Aug 12, 2021 · 09:00 am

Hindi might not be the national language – but it is growing rapidly across India

Sep 19, 2020 · 09:00 am

An American teacher’s online Malayalam lessons have won her a following even in Kerala

Sep 16, 2020 · 06:30 pm

Why is India obsessed with English-medium education – when it goes against scientific consensus?

Aug 06, 2020 · 09:00 am

How a Bihari lost her mother tongue to Hindi – but is now trying to get it back

Jun 30, 2020 · 07:30 am

We’re on ‘coronacation’ while we wait for ‘lexit’: How coronavirus is changing our language

May 12, 2020 · 06:30 pm

A limited vocabulary hinders your ability to express emotions – and to understand them

Mar 24, 2020 · 11:30 pm

Philip Pullman’s ‘His Dark Materials’: How to decode the story’s linguistic secrets

Nov 26, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Want to build a language from scratch? Start with the question who will speak it, and why

Sep 13, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Twitter is helping the ancient Scots language thrive (and garner attention)

Aug 15, 2019 · 09:30 pm

The haleem debate: Why some Indian Muslims are renaming the Ramzan delicacy ‘daleem’

Jun 03, 2019 · 11:30 am

Shaheed and martyr are religious terms. Should they be used for Indian soldiers killed in battle?

Mar 10, 2019 · 06:30 am

No Hindi, Hindu, Hindustan? Implemented fully, BJP’s Hindutva renaming will wipe out a lot of India

Nov 20, 2018 · 08:00 am

Unsolicited advice to writers: Why you should learn to love the full stop.

Oct 18, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Surging Hindi, shrinking South Indian languages: Nine charts that explain the 2011 language census

Jul 04, 2018 · 07:30 am

What Malay works from Patani tell us about the literary and cultural heritage of Southeast Asia

Aug 06, 2017 · 08:30 pm

Why do human beings speak so many languages?

Jul 22, 2017 · 08:30 pm

The rise of Hinglish: How the media created a new lingua franca for India's elites

Jun 18, 2017 · 09:00 am

The man behind a 9,000-page, eight-volume Kannada dictionary that took 54 years to write

Mar 20, 2017 · 11:30 am

Biggest BBC World Service expansion in 40 years aims to extend British soft power

Nov 25, 2016 · 11:30 pm

Bongo, Bangla and Bengal: A short guide to the confusing world of Bengali nomenclature

Aug 07, 2016 · 08:00 am

Podcast: Several Indian languages face the risk of dying. Here's what we stand to lose

Jul 28, 2016 · 03:30 pm

No longer lost for words: How researchers rediscovered the mother of all mother tongues

Jul 25, 2016 · 09:30 pm

How exactly does the Indian media define a terrorist?

Jul 19, 2016 · 08:00 am

If the name 'Bombay' was erased for being a relic of colonial rule, why do we still use 'India'?

Jun 24, 2016 · 08:00 am

Why are Indian Muslims using the Arabic word ‘Ramadan’ instead of the traditional 'Ramzan'?

Jun 14, 2016 · 06:30 am

How common Malayalam slang words evolved from foreign languages

Jun 05, 2016 · 08:30 pm

In defence of English: Blame the Indian education system, not the language

Jun 05, 2016 · 04:30 pm

The death of Urdu in India is greatly exaggerated – the language is actually thriving

Jun 01, 2016 · 08:00 am

Why the cow is considered holy in Hinduism

Nov 12, 2015 · 12:30 pm

Why dogs and puppies are swear words in India: A short guide to Hindi profanity for the BJP

Oct 22, 2015 · 07:30 pm

Stop outraging over Marathi – Hindi and English chauvinism is much worse in India

Sep 18, 2015 · 05:30 pm

Why Hindi needs to discard Devanagri and adopt the Roman script

Aug 14, 2015 · 11:30 am

Fact check: India wasn't the first place Sanskrit was recorded – it was Syria

Jun 30, 2015 · 09:05 am

Why are Indian Muslims using the Arabic word ‘Ramadan’ instead of the traditional 'Ramzan'?

Jun 19, 2015 · 09:00 am

Video: an animated map shows how Sanskrit may have come to India

Jun 10, 2015 · 01:30 pm

You’ve been using your favourite emojis all wrong (which shows how important they've become)

Jun 01, 2015 · 03:30 pm