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 ...

When I was growing up in the nineties in a small north-Indian town, the hey-days of reading and magazines were already long gone. With television as the primary source of entertainment and cable tv ...

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 ...

Stamps of Hindi Day and Pratap Narayan Mishra against a representative background of a table of some Indian languages, as recorded by German Indologist AFR Hoernlé in 1880. | Post of India, GODL-India ...

New Delhi: World Hindi Day 2026 is the perfect excuse to fall back in love with Hindi, whether you are a fluent speaker or a hesitant learner secretly scrolling through “easy Hindi novels” online. As ...

“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 ...