Hindi

Who’s Afraid of Hindi?

Rajeev Deshpande

The national education policy and political opposition to BJP add a new twist to an old debate

Hindi Is Not Indian

Pallavi Aiyar

Lessons from the linguistic choices made by China and Indonesia

Proportionate Justice

Madhavankutty Pillai

Why Zomato is right in reinstating sacked employee who told customer Hindi was national language

The Deep Dark Web

Aditya Mani Jha

The perpetrators, victims and warriors of cyber crimes make for compelling onscreen drama

How Chekhov’s works influenced 20th century Hindi literature

Ajay Kamalakaran

Giants of Hindi literature such as Munshi Premchand, Rajendra Yadav and Banarasidas Chaturvedi were enamoured of the works of the Russian playwright and short-story writer

Tuitions in Vrindavan: When a Russian Indologist taught George Harrison Hindi

Ajay Kamalakaran

When she agreed to teach the legendary English singer Hindi in the 1970s, India scholar Natalya Sazanova had no idea who the Beatles were. Over four months of lessons, George Harrison preferred to keep his fame a secret