Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s push for NEP and the three-language formula sparks a political storm in Tamil Nadu, reigniting the state’s long-standing fight against Hindi imposition.

The finance minister accused the DMK of ‘not only rejecting a national symbol but also completely ignoring the creation of a ...

India's linguistic diversity is both its strength and its struggle. Since Independence, language has been a political ...

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In his documentary, and fourth film, on the pathbreaking Hindi writer Vinod Kumar Shukla, that is streaming on MUBI, independent filmmaker Achal Mishra has frozen, for posterity, the cultural ...

As far back as the Revolution, our nation’s founders began discussions of what they wanted for this country. They knew they wanted a new kind of governance, a more responsive form of governance ...

Around the same time that Stalin was penning his attack on a “monolithic Hindi identity”, Amit Shah was in Chennai assuring the people of Tamil Nadu that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will ensure that ...

They raised slogans against imposition of Hindi and Sanskrit in whichever form in Tamil Nadu. They condemned the University Grants Commission’s draft regulations which gave powers to the ...

Matos’s ‘letters’ screened as part of last year’s edition of the biennial Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF) in the Norwegian archipelago, in its Kinobox programme, constituting two ...

DMK’s Tenkasi North district secretary and MLA E Raja, along with other DMK functionaries, painted over Hindi letters on Sankarankovil railway station’s name board, while former DMK South ...