language

Home Alone

Bibek Debroy

There is more to Rajiv Malhotra’s latest book on Sanskrit than the usual Pollock pickle

Sneha Keshav: Mind the F Word

Sonali Acharjee

One woman’s mission to find suitable and fun alternatives to the four letter word

The Miseducation of Jharkhand’s Children

Pavithra S Rangan

Imparted in a language they scarcely understand, the education seems designed to leave them unread

A Historical Sense

Aatish Taseer

What Sanskrit has meant to me

The English Non Goddess

Madhavankutty Pillai

The outrage Rajnath Singh’s statement on English has evoked shows our genius at turning slavery into a virtue

Does Geography Impact language?

arindam

Yes, the lay of the land has a bearing on verbal communication

Do Women Really Talk More?

arindam

Yes. And this is because they possess higher levels of a key language protein

Jaw-Jaw with Jarawas

Pramod Kumar

Pramod Kumar is one of the few researchers in the world who has interacted with this Andamanese tribe. He recently completed a PhD thesis on the grammar of their language

English Vinglish

Ajit Duara

It’s great to have Sridevi back on screen after such a long gap

The Death of an Indian-born Language

Hugo Cardoso

William Rozario, last speaker of Indo-Portuguese Creole of Cochin, died recently. When I had met him for my research on Creole languages, he was glad to speak his language again, even though I could only pick it up in parts