As India positions itself as the world's next big supplier of skilled manpower, one question looms large-can we truly go global without speaking the global language? In a recent talk, Emma from ...

Hindi is at the top of the language hierarchy in most parts of North India where users of other tongues find themselves in a ...

When British traders landed on India’s shores in the 1600s, they arrived in search of spices and silk but stayed for centuries – leaving behind a legacy that would shape the nation long after their ...

I remember walking down a busy street in Delhi during my first stay in India and noting the different ways in which the same words were written in Latin script. Lakshmi here, Luxmi there. Since then I ...

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 ...