Hindi Language

Explained: Why Ajay Devgn is wrong in his argument with Kichcha Sudeepa over national language tweet

Hindi will always be our national language, Ajay Devgn said during a Twitter spat with Kannada actor Kichcha Sudeepa.

Explained: The staunch opposition in the Northeast against Centre’s proposal to make Hindi compulsory in schools

Union Home Minister Amit Shah has said that Hindi should be made compulsory until Class 10 in the northeastern states. The proposal has upset political parties and student bodies in the region who believe that indigenous languages should be protected

How BJP’s Hindi love story may work in ‘Cow Belt’ but hurt Bharatiya sentiments

Amit Shah said that Hindi should be accepted as an alternative to English. This two-tier system with more Hindi instead of English usage, and other languages pushed down the ladder, is only comfortable for Hindi speakers

Amit Shah's Hindi remark triggers 'imposition' debate: Understanding India's history of language politics

Home Minister Amit Shah's statement that 'Hindi should be accepted as an alternative to English and not to local languages' invited the fury of Opposition leaders, as well as artistes such as AR Rahman and Prakash Raj. They called it an assault on India's pluralism

Tripura CM Biplab Kumar Deb claims those who oppose Hindi do not love India, adds that he is not anti-English

Tripura chief minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Monday claimed that those who are opposing Hindi as the 'rashtra bhasha' (national language) do not love the country

Remembering Bharatendu Harishchandra on Hindi Divas, a man whose work fortified the language

Bharatendu Harishchandra, born in 1850, is known as the 'Father of modern day Hindi literature'. And it was in establishing this language that his biggest contribution lay. Much of the prose that Harishchandra wrote to establish the Hindi we know today was done in the Kavivachansudha and Harishchandra Magazine, which he founded in 1873.

‘Respect all languages, cultures equally’: Mamata Banerjee responds to Amit Shah's appeal for Hindi as national language

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday said people should respect all languages and cultures equally but not at the cost of their mother tongues

BJP clueless about South; Tamil Nadu doesn't see value in being compelled to learn Hindi, writes DMK's Manuraj S

Let it be said once again, for we live in the times of fake news and clichéd thinking, that Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) does not oppose Hindi. Nor does it oppose Bengali, Urdu, Marathi, Malayalam or Sindhi. However, the imposition of any one language, through school education policy or otherwise, is not acceptable to the DMK. In other words, any such move to insidiously bring Hindi in through the backdoor will be thwarted.

Hindi is symbol of socio-political and linguistic unity in India, says Venkaiah Naidu; suggests translation of regional language literature

Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Friday termed Hindi as the symbol of socio-political and linguistic unity of the country and pitched for the translation of literature of regional languages into it.

Duolingo Hindi language learning module launched: Here's how it came about

The Duolingo course focusses more on conversational Hindi than the Sanskritised register of Hindi.