English plays a crucial role in modern India, serving as a bridge between diverse linguistic and cultural communities. Its promotion should be prioritized, not as a replacement for Indian languages, ...

Despite the fact that the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has asked all affiliated schools to map students’ mother tongues “at the earliest” and align instructional materials accordingly ...

Does it pay to speak English? This column by Mehtabul Azam, an economist at the World Bank, Aimee Chin, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Houston, and Nishith Prakash, Visiting ...

“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.

Indian English is the only language that uses the expression 'non-veg' for meat, fish, and those who consume them. A fascinating extract from Shashi Tharoor's A Wonderland of Words: Around the Word in ...

This article first appeared in The Conversation. English is widely acknowledged as the world's most successful language. It has developed over the 20th century into a global lingua franca, the most ...