Professor Raj Mutharasan's lecture at the Roja Muthiah Research Library in Chennai was an in-depth exploration of one question: Who was the first Indian?

For thousands of years, spoken language has set humans apart from all other species. The ability to convey complex ideas, ...

Much of the early search for a lost Indus Valley language centred on the seals that were found when the old cities were ...

Centre's bid to not release Rs 2150 crore Samagra Shiksha funds to Tamil Nadu has ramifications for a large section of ...

The government must implement the three-language policy in Tamil Nadu, ensuring that Dravidian languages like Telugu, Kannada ...

The National Education Policy does not enforce Hindi learning but suggests a third language in schools. BJP's ANS Prasad ...

Status: The 2025-2026 call for applications for the First Nations Languages Funding Model of the Indigenous Languages Component led by Canadian Heritage is now open until February 7, 2025. Please do ...

Tamil nationalists seeking to replace the Dravidian movement have begun to ... of Periyar’s comments that “Tamil is a barbaric language.” They often say that Periyar’s so-called hatred ...

In the minds of Mr. Stalin and others, the script most likely has Tamil roots. (Tamil, a Dravidian language, is another classical language of India.) That, in turn, would cement the Dravidian ...

Various theories have been proposed. Could it be a Dravidian language, early Brahmi, an early Indo-Aryan language or even Sumerian? No one can agree. Consisting of 4,000 inscriptions, mostly on seals, ...

Chief Minister M K Stalin said that it was Dravidam (Dravidian) that christened the motherland as Tamil Nadu, earned reservation for various marginalized communities, fought for women’s rights ...