In many ways, Hindi fiction is more authentic than most English-language fiction about India. For one, contemporary Hindi ...

A Class 9 student allegedly stabbed his Hindi teacher in the classroom yesterday at a private Chennai' school. The 39-year-old teacher, Uma Maheshwari, has died. At about 10.50 am yesterday, the ...

In the decades immediately following the Independence, a class of Indians – namely, the middle class – realised that reading for pleasure could be a serious activity. The times were changing and so ...

Aakriti Mandhwani’s ‘Everyday Reading’ is a refreshingly fresh take on the middlebrow publishing and reading practices of the North Indian middle classes in the 1950s and 1960s. Through magazines ...

“Reading is dead” has become one of culture’s most confidently repeated claims—invoked every time attention spans shrink, ...

Jaipur: The Rajasthan education department will launch oral reading fluency assessments for students of Classes 3 to 8 in all govt schools from this academic session. The initiative aims to improve ...