Union home minister Amit Shah on Thursday urged Indians to speak in their native languages and claimed “those who speak English in this country would soon feel ashamed”, drawing allegations of ...

When India’s Constituent Assembly debated the language question, they grappled with a challenge that would define our republic’s character: how to unite a multilingual nation with the idea of equality ...

The Maharashtra government-appointed Language Consultation Committee chairperson Laxmikant Deshmukh has opposed the State government’s decision to make Hindi compulsory. In a letter to Chief Minister ...

Almost 180 years ago, a British public servant proposed ‘Macaulay's Minute.’ To this day - given India’s regional, linguistic and people’s personal choices - imposing the use of Hindi as the official ...