The clash over language teaching is less about classrooms and more about who gets to define what it means to be Indian.

Every year, October 5 is celebrated as the Indian English day to commemorate the start of English being taught as a language ...

CBSE directive prompts English-medium schools in Delhi-NCR to promote Hindi and multilingual education through various ...

Arabhi Sundararajan’s daughter, a Gunn High School freshman, travels to a Hindi school in Fremont every Sunday for a three-hour course in the language she’s been learning since kindergarten. It’s an ...

Hindi imposition faces resistance in India, not due to dislike for the language itself, but against its forced declaration as ...

Amit Shah wants Hindi to step into science, technology, law, and policing, calling it a unifying “companion” to other Indian languages. Citing Gujarat’s example, he said Hindi strengthens national ...

The Maharashtra government on Tuesday issued an order making Hindi a “generally” taught third language for students from Class 1 to Class 5 in Marathi and English medium schools, PTI reported.

A Maharashtra government notification makes Hindi the default third language in schools. The earlier decision to make Hindi compulsory faced significant opposition and protests. The revised ...