Samanth Subramanian reports on Ganesh Devy, the scholar documenting India’s languages and pushing against the B.J.P.’s campaign to make the country embrace Hindi.

Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar has urged national unity amidst ongoing language controversies. He emphasized India's ...

Tamil, the highest-funded among the five classical Indian languages, received less than 5% of Sanskrit’s total funding, Kannada and Telugu each received less than 0.5%, and Odia and Malayalam ...

Mumbai: Over two weeks after govt announced that it will celebrate ‘classical Marathi language day' on Oct 3 and ‘classical ...

Puducherry, India, an aspirational nation in the world, cannot afford to be divided on the issue of languages, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar said on Tuesday and appealed to to the people to ...

India officially recognises 22 languages under the Constitution. Learn about these languages, where they are spoken, their cultural significance, and how India preserves its linguistic diversity.

There are about 7,000 languages spoken in the world today; they can be divided into about 140 families. Nevertheless, the languages most of us speak belong to just five: Indo-European, Sino ...

Tamil was the first language in India to be accorded classical language status in 2004. Sanskrit, Kannada, Malayalam, and Odia are the other languages that have been declared classical languages ...