Tagore’s ideals couldn’t have inspired Modi’s National Education Policy 2020: Veteran educationist Pabitra Sarkar

The PM, also Visva Bharati chancellor, spoke at the inauguration of the university’s centenary celebration and tried hard to associate his …

Origins of Indo-European languages

Now evolutionary biologists have jumped in where linguists fear to tread, namely the stormy question of when and where Indo-European languages …

A language that only Great Andamanese speak

‘English wiped out local languages elsewhere, not in India’

Eighty-Five years after George A Grierson, a British administrator, conducted the first survey of languages in India, another such exercise has …

Mind your language Intellectual property police could be lurking with intent

Survey tracks down only speaker of Majhi in India

Peoples Linguistic Survey of India, released on Thursday, has traced near extinct languages like Majhi, a language spoken by boatmen in Sikkim …

A language spoken by only 273

Pramod Kumar researches a language spoken by only 273 people in the Andaman islands. A PhD candidate at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, he …

Amul loses its sugar-free market

The loss of wisdom

A survey says India has lost a fifth of its languages in the past five decades. With the death of these languages we have also lost the keys to …

Gondi language: victim of government neglect

Without active government support, a unique language, connected with the aspirations of the largest forest-dwelling tribal group in India, is …

Green lore

Environment has been intrinsic to our oral traditions much before we developed writing. But it is only in the past decade or two that …

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Words are biotic

Is it a coincidence that areas of linguistic plurality are also areas of biodiversity?