This decision brings the total number of classical languages in India to eleven, extending to the existing six- - Odia, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, and Sanskrit. But, what does it truly mean for a ...

The Union Cabinet expands India's Classical Languages list to 11, adding Marathi, Pali, Prakrit, Assamese, and Bengali. This move is seen as both a recognition of cultural heritage and a political ...

"Kos-kos par badle paani, chaar kos par baani" — this age-old saying beautifully captures the essence of India’s unmatched ...

How One Ancient Language Went Global” explores the roots of language and how it spread and changed across time and place.

Where on earth does a government recognise languages as classical? It happens only in India! But why? The plain answer is appeasing the linguistic and cultural sub-nationalities―an instance of ...

Recently the Kokborok Sahitya Parishad sought the inclusion of the Kokborok language in the Eighth Schedule of the ...

The Assam government on Thursday presented the Srimanta Sankardeva Award to renowned Indian classical dancer and cultural ...

which in Indian history have usually entailed a position of inferiority or powerlessness in relation to ‘dominant’, ‘cosmopolitan’, or ‘classical’ languages. Yet, the assertions of linguistic identity ...

Called the Murty Classical Library of India and published (like the Loeb) by Harvard, Mr. Murty’s project set out to “present the greatest literary works of India from the past two millennia ...