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Hindi, Hindu sans Hindutva

A fascinating account shows how much of the maverick writer and polymath's thinking was rooted in cosmopolitanism

UNGA adopts resolution on multilingualism, mentions Hindi for first time

In a significant initiative, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has adopted an India-sponsored resolution on multilingualism that mentions the Hindi language for the first time

Geetanjali Shree's Tomb of Sand 1st Hindi novel to win International Booker

Tomb of Sand', originally Ret Samadhi', is set in northern India and follows an 80-year-old woman in a tale the Booker judges dubbed a "joyous cacophony" and an "irresistible novel".

PM Modi picks Tamil pitch, CM Stalin targets Centre over 'true federalism'

TN CM said the Centre should increase funds and projects for the state and sought exemption to Tamil Nadu from NEET

Former Meghalaya CM slams Centre's decision to make Hindi compulsory in NE

Former Meghalaya CM Mukul Sangma condemned the Centre's decision to make Hindi a compulsory subject till Class 10 in the north-east region

Communication breakdown

The Hindi-primacy debate has lost its relevance

DMK hits out at the central govt over Hindi 'imposition'

Ruling party's mouthpiece 'Murasoli' in its edition today carried a well-known slogan of Karunanidhi against foisting Hindi on people and captioned the write-up as 'Warning to the Union government"

Scindia objects to Tharoor's remarks over replies in Hindi in Lok Sabha

Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Thursday took issue with Congress leader Shashi Tharoor's remarks on giving replies in Hindi in Lok Sabha. While responding to supplementary questions asked by members from Tamil Nadu in English, Scindia replied in Hindi. Soon after, Tharoor, who is a member from Kerala, commented that it was an "apman (insult)" that the minister was responding in Hindi. The minister speaks English and let him reply in English, Tharoor said. "Zara jawab Hindi mein mat dijiye... ye apman hai logon ka (Please don't give replies in Hindi... it is an insult to people)," Tharoor said during Question Hour. A visibly peeved Scindia said it was strange for the member to make such a comment. "Mein Hindi bole to eithraaz ho raha hai (If I speak in Hindi, (the member) has objection," he said, adding that there was also a translator in the House. Immediately after Tharoor made the remarks, Speaker Om Birla said, "Ye apman nahi hain (this is not an insult).

Hindi plays key role in spreading India's knowledge, culture: PM Modi

The Ministry of External Affairs celebrated the programme on World Hindi Day virtually

LinkedIn to be available in Hindi, seeks to expand reach in India

LinkedIn on Thursday marked a new milestone with the launch of Hindi, the first Indian regional language on the professional network.

Hindi is friend of all Indian languages, says HM Amit Shah

The home minister said a sense of inferiority complex was instilled in the minds of some children who couldn't speak English

Hindi an unbreakable part of Indian culture: Amit Shah on Hindi Diwas

Amit Shah extended his wishes on the occasion of "Hindi Diwas" calling the language as an "unbreakable part of Indian culture"

Microsoft adds English (India), Hindi to speech service Neural TTS

Microsoft India on Tuesday announced the addition of English (India) and Hindi to its Neural Text to Speech (Neural TTS) service language set

Here's why Oxford University Press named 'Samvidhaan' as Hindi word of 2019

The Oxford Hindi Word of the Year is a word or expression that has attracted a great deal of attention and reflects the ethos, mood, or preoccupations of the past year.

Build real-time speech translation to reduce language barriers: Govt to cos

Citing a study, Sawhney said that 0.055 per cent of websites were found with content in Hindi and next Indian language which comes closer in Bengali.

Can we emote in English?

Our national conversation, meaning that which relates to the economy, security, constitutionalism and the law and so on, has been appropriated by English

How Hindi's growth will lead to decline in Tamil, Kannada speakers

By 2031 more than half of India's population will be Hindi speakers while share of all other language speakers will decline

Never asked for imposing Hindi over native languages, says Amit Shah

Amid a heated debate over his remark that Hindi should be a common language, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said he has never asked for imposition of Hindi over native languages in the country but advocated its use as the second language, following which DMK announced postponement of its September 20 protest. Referring to his speech on the occasion of Hindi Divas on Saturday where he made a pitch for a common language for India, the home minister said to end the confusion, people should listen to his speech carefully but "if someone wants to do politics, it is their choice." Clarifying his comments, he said, "a child can perform, a child's proper mental growth is possible only when the child studies in mother tongue. Mother tongue does not mean Hindi. It is the language of a particular state, like Gujarati in my state. But there should be one language in the country, if someone wants to learn another language, it should be Hindi." "I have just made the request. I have ..

The uniting power of Hindi

Indians display remarkable apathy to excesses by the state -except when at stake is their language

Letter to BS: The best option today would be to revisit 3-language formula

Social media users in India have been using English or Devanagari scripts for communicating in a language of their choice