When India invited delegates attending the G20 summit in September 2023 to dinner with “the President of Bharat,” rather than “the President of India,” it may have looked to the world like a simple ...

Hindi Diwas is celebrated every year on September 14, to honour Hindi as one of India’s most widely spoken languages. The day commemorates the adoption of Hindi as an official language of India in ...

When Did Hindi Become Official Language? Hindi became the official language of India on 26 January 1950, the day the Constitution of India came into force. This meant government work at the national ...

Hindi is not just a language confined to India- it is a global linguistic force. With centuries of history, cultural influence, and millions of speakers worldwide, Hindi continues to shape ...

Since coming into power in May 2014, the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance government has issued a number of official orders, circulars and notifications that it claims are ...

Bengal governor's assertion of Hindi as the national language reignites long-standing debates on linguistic identity in India ...

Maharashtra, long regarded as one of India’s most cosmopolitan states, has found itself reliving an old tension: a renewed battle over language. In the last few months, a state government order ...

LAST MONTH in Bangalore, India’s tech capital, concertgoers heckled a pop star with demands that he sing in Kannada, the local language. He told them off; the police registered a complaint against him ...

Hong Kong’s Grenfell Tower Moment: When Grief Became Sedition A BJP poster issued on World Hindi Day on January 10, 2018, quotes Prime Minister Narendra Modi as saying that “Today, the entire world ...

"A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people." — Mahatma GandhiIndia, with its tapestry of ...

NEW DELHI, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Invites sent by Indian President Droupadi Murmu calling herself "President of Bharat" for a dinner on the sidelines of the G20 summit have stirred speculation that the ...

The Maharashtra government has withdrawn its order implementing the three-language policy following opposition protests against the perceived imposition of Hindi. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis ...