Language debate
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‘No such thing as Mumbai theatre’: Writer Shanta Gokhale on the language divide on the stage
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Can Rabindranath Tagore be called a nativist?
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Hindi Day: The many, varying ideas of India’s ‘national’ language
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Hindi is national language, witnesses from Bengal must use it in UP tribunal, says SC judge
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Whether in Hindi or Hungarian, swear words have similar sound patterns
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Plea to make Hindi the official language of J&K and Ladakh dismissed
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Interview: Why medical courses in non-English languages will burden students and create barriers
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Amit Shah releases MBBS textbooks in Hindi, praises Modi for promoting the language globally
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The gender-neutral word ‘Latinx’ is gaining ground in the US – but it isn’t really inclusive
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BJP should not attempt to ‘turn India into Hindia’, says MK Stalin
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The ‘rashtrapatni’ row should make us rethink the everyday bias against women in our languages
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‘Rashtrapatni’ row is a reminder of the sexist roots of language – and a suggestion by Bal Thackeray
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How Urdu scholar Gopi Chand Narang (1931-2022) advocated for the language as a ‘civilisational gain’
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We are not against Hindi, but its imposition, says Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin
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Does David Shulman wrongly place his biography of Tamil in a framework of Sanskrit and Hinduism?
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Southern Railway withdraws circular asking staff to speak only in English and Hindi after protests
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Tamil Nadu CM deletes tweet urging PM Modi to include Tamil as optional language in other states
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Urdu and Hindi could be one language called Hindustani. Will the politics of language allow it?
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‘Why should schemes in Tamil Nadu be named in Hindi’: AIADMK leader M Thambidurai to The Hindu
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Telangana Assembly passes law making it compulsory for schools to teach Telugu
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Why should we force a PM from Tamil Nadu or Bengal to speak Hindi at the UN, asks Shashi Tharoor
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Using Hindi is the most powerful way to unify India, Venkaiah Naidu says in Telangana
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Speak in your mother tongue, not English, says Venkaiah Naidu
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Hindi’s prototype was a mélange of dialects – but the language is now undergoing a purification
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The order on the use of Hindi for official speeches is just a distraction from India’s real problems
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Is Pakistan’s problem Urdu?
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Read the fine print: Hindi is the mother tongue of only 26 per cent of Indians