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Diary | All Translations Are In Some Way Adaptations Or Retellings: Wendy Doniger

Diary | All Translations Are In Some Way Adaptations Or Retellings: Wendy Doniger

BY Wendy Doniger

Tomb Of Sands by Geetanjali Shree

Lost And Gained In Translation

BY Kushal Poddar

The Shair’s Last Sigh

The Shair’s Last Sigh

BY Nawaid Anjum

Anti-Hindi movement: The Grassroots Struggle For Tamil Pride

Anti-Hindi movement: The Grassroots Struggle For Tamil Pride

BY Meena Kandasamy

The Bengali Language Tale: From Dominant To Persecuted

The Bengali Language Tale: From Dominant To Persecuted

BY Snigdhendu Bhattacharya

Centre’s Five-language Formula For J&K Is Being Seen As Incremental Hindi Imposition

Centre’s Five-language Formula For J&K Is Being Seen As Incremental Hindi Imposition

BY Naseer Ganai

Nastaliq Urdu script being taught at Govt Sarvodaya Vidyalaya No 1, Jama Masjid, Delhi

A Dying Declaration: Urdu Is Dying A Slow, Painful Death

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Let A Language Contend

Let A Language Contend

BY Outlook Bureau

As Catholics And Hindus Fight Over Scripts, Konkani Loses Out In Goa

As Catholics And Hindus Fight Over Scripts, Konkani Loses Out In Goa

BY Mayabhushan Nagvenkar

The Decline Of Urdu In UP's Literary World

The Decline Of Urdu In UP's Literary World

BY Sharib Rudaulvi

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The Talking Vulture

BY Khuraijam Nirupama

Beyond The Borders: When A Hindi Novel Gets Shortlisted For Booker

Beyond The Borders: When A Hindi Novel Gets Shortlisted For Booker

BY Harish Trivedi

Why Marathi cinema has lost its sheen.

Culture & Society

Why Marathi Cinema Has Lost Its Sheen

BY Haima Deshpande

Sena Leader Sanjay Raut Bats For 'One Country, One Language', Says Hindi Is Spoken Across India

Sena Leader Sanjay Raut Bats For 'One Country, One Language', Says Hindi Is Spoken Across India

BY Outlook News Desk

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Urdu, the language of love

Culture & Society

Hate Speech And The Language That Speaks Of Love: An Ode To Urdu

Migrant workers

Tamil Nadu Minister Takes Dig At Hindi, Says Most Hindi Speaker Migrants Work In Pani Puri Shops

BY Outlook News Desk

Bhoti language debate in Ladakh

Is Bhoti A Language, Religious Affiliation, Sanskrit Diminutive Or Political Tool?

BY Siddiq Wahid

The Hindi language debate

How Grouping Of Languages Inflated Number Of Hindi Speakers

BY Snigdhendu Bhattacharya

Students at Singpho Mother Tongue School in Ketetong village of Tinsukia district

How North-east Communities Are Trying To Revive Their Dying Languages

BY Syeda Ambia Zahan

The Mighty Ma Boli: Punjabi Sees A Resurgence In The Public Sphere

The Mighty Ma Boli: Punjabi Sees A Resurgence In The Public Sphere

BY Ashutosh Sharma

Dying languages of India

The Endangered And Extinct Languages Of India

BY Shreya Basak

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Dying languages

Five Decades Of Invisiblisation Of India’s Minor Languages

BY Snigdhendu Bhattacharya

A student writing on the blackboard in his regional language.

Does NEP Propagate Hindi Imposition? Debate Over State's Language Policy Continues

Visually impaired students learning Braille.

No Standard For Exams, Lack Of Books: Braille Script Faces Many Challenges In India

The paradox of Bhojpuri: Vulgarity as an alternative tongue.

Culture & Society

The Paradox Of Bhojpuri: Vulgarity As An Alternative Tongue

BY Rishabh Sriwastava

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