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Manuscripts Don’t Burn

Antara Raghavan

How languages and cultures in Asia transcend boundaries with the written word

The Language Trap

Amit Majmudar

English stands between India and the West when it comes to Hinduism

Language: We Are Like That Only

Shashi Tharoor

Being unapologetic about Indian English

The Uses of Babel

Peggy Mohan

How languages liberate

Congress’ Colonial Gene

Minhaz Merchant

It still seeks to divide India as the British did using caste and religion

History as Palimpsest

Narayani Basu

Over one hundred scholars map the origins and evolution of India

Language Model

Madhavankutty Pillai

On a gender-just handbook by the Supreme Court

Macaulay’s Orphans

Swapan Dasgupta

The exaggerated reliance on English

Critical Mass of Urdu Speakers

Swapan Dasgupta

Urdu’s importance has been declining steadily since a mass of Urdu speakers and writers migrated to Pakistan from northern India and the erstwhile Hyderabad state after Partition

Conversation, Rhetoric and Platitudes

Amit Khanna

Let us bring back traditional conversation. Face to face.

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language

Manuscripts Don’t Burn

The Language Trap

Language: We Are Like That Only

The Uses of Babel

Congress’ Colonial Gene

History as Palimpsest

Language Model

Macaulay’s Orphans

Critical Mass of Urdu Speakers

Conversation, Rhetoric and Platitudes

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