The Indian government is funding an initiative to distribute free CDs containing open-source software. Around 3.5 million CDs of Tamil-language versions of open-source applications and 3.5 million ...

India’s government recently released the linguistic data from the latest 2011 census. The results confirm previous data, as well as anecdotal trends: the continuing explosion of Hindi, the growth of ...

People who speak English in India will "soon feel ashamed," according to a senior government minister from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. But the party's efforts to promote Hindi are facing ...

India’s language policy debate — reignited by the National Education Policy’s implementation — reveals deeper tensions between the country’s state and central governments, with southern states ...

There are more than 7,000 languages spoken around the world, each with its own character. Tamil is the oldest living language ...

Editor’s Note: This article is the second in a two-part series. Read part one here. While Hindi is doing well in India, the other official languages of India are also still going strong. In particular ...