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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A BJP poster issued on World Hindi Day on January 10, 2018, quotes Prime Minister Narendra Modi as saying that “Today, the entire world recognizes the power and might of the Hindi language.” Credit: ...

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

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