Navi Mumbai: The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) is organising a series of cultural and literary programmes to mark ...
PUNE/ MUMBAI: Language lovers often find themselves lost in the labyrinthine rules of grammar. But Yasmin Shaikh, an acclaimed grammarian and Marathi language expert, has always viewed grammar as ...
In an age where the global lingua franca, English, seems to hold an unassailable position in the digital sphere, the survival of the regional vernacular often appears to be a losing battle. Yet, at ...
The ongoing Marathi language controversy has taken a new turn following comments made by Professor Shantishree Dhulipudi Pandit, the Vice Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). Speaking ...
The language wars are upon us again. It’s been a tumultuous few weeks since the Maharashtra government brought out a government resolution on April 16, making Hindi a compulsory language for classes 1 ...
A few years back, a Hindi teacher at Moscow University told me to convey her gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “Since your PM speaks only in Hindi, instead of English, to interpreters while ...
It has also designated the week of October 3-9 as ‘classical Marathi language week’, with the expenditure to be met through regular budgetary allocations The Maharashtra government has announced that ...