language politics

The battle for Sanskrit

There are those among Western and Western-based Indologists who are leading an aggressive and well-organized movement to position Sanskrit study as a political battleground.

Regionalism: The division among us

Is regionalism a threat to nationalism?

Multilingualism: the key to preserving linguistic diversity in India

The problem is not with the debate on language as such but the nature of debate.

One nation one language: An accident waiting to happen

Language can unite the culture in those countries which don’t have a long history to recite. India that is known as Bharat is a…

उर्दू गालियों की विकृत संस्कृति का बोझ ढोती हिन्दी

जिन्हे हम ‘हिन्दी गाली’ कहते हैं, जितने भी फूहड़ और यौन-कुंठा के शब्द हिन्दी गालियों के रूप में बताए जाते हैं। अगर उनके उद्भव…

The Luddite argument of Southern States over Hindi Language

If the Centre’s introduction is political, Tamil Nadu’s resisting it is also political. As a matter of fact, the Tamil parties are playing politics…

Where are the guardians?

And to say that Hindi should not be a unifying language of the country is like saying every state should have it's own National…

Is the BJP’s politics of language inclusive?

Article analyses the party’s past stance in Parliament and contributions made in promoting other Linguistic minorities.

Why those mocking Sanskrit as a language are fools themselves

A colonized mind and little knowledge leads wind bags to mock what they can't comprehend.