From time to time, one stumbles into people who think it is enough to know English to understand India. It is true that English is an official language of the Republic of India, the proceedings of the ...

India’s Worrying Plans for Dams on Transboundary Rivers Shared with Bangladesh In a previous article on the role of English in India, I argued that privileging English over Indian languages hurts ...

Do India’s 1.3 billion people need English? Not according to Vice President Venkaiah Naidu. At an event last week in New Delhi to mark “Hindi day,” Mr. Naidu called English “a disease left behind by ...

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In contemporary India, the scope of the English language has extended beyond being a colonial legacy to a language of socio-economic mobility, employability, and much more. It is now the language ...

Not only has new Indian prime minister Narendra Modi replaced English with Hindi when talking to audiences in non-Hindi parts of India, he’s also addressing other Asian leaders in Hindi. Shutterstock ...