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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hindi Diwas Speech in English: Hindi Diwas is celebrated to commemorate a very significant moment in our history. On September 14, 1949, the Constituent Assembly of India adopted Hindi, written in the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...