English remains entrenched in India and is widely used by India’s elite, bureaucracy, and companies. It is particularly important in its written form, as the official versions of most documents use ...

Indian poetry in English that the author encountered beyond the textbooks in the 1980s seemed to be dominated by a small ...

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Do India’s 1.3 billion people need English? Not according to Vice President Venkaiah Naidu. At an event last week in New Delhi to mark “Hindi day,” Mr. Naidu called English “a disease left behind by ...

Not only has new Indian prime minister Narendra Modi replaced English with Hindi when talking to audiences in non-Hindi parts of India, he’s also addressing other Asian leaders in Hindi. Shutterstock ...

I remember walking down a busy street in Delhi during my first stay in India and noting the different ways in which the same words were written in Latin script. Lakshmi here, Luxmi there. Since then I ...

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