India loves the idea of the classroom as a leveller. Yet equality frays at the chalkboard, often at the language of instruction. Overcrowded rooms, rigid syllabi and English-first materials have long ...

Bhashini — an acronym for BHASha INterface for India — operates under the National Language Translation Mission (NLTM), spearheaded by the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) ...

In some Indian languages, the word for “language” is bhasha—the vowels long and warm, as in “car” or “tar.” It has a formal weight and a refined spirit. It comes to us from the classical heights of ...

There are more than 7,000 languages spoken around the world, each with its own character. Tamil is the oldest living language ...

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India is home to great writing systems such as the Brāhmī and the Kharosthī that date back centuries. It’s also a land where languages such as Sanskrit, Tamil and Kannada have etched an oral history ...

These new changes align with the recommendations under the NEP 2020, which places a strong emphasis on multilingual learning from an early age ...

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