Despite the fact that the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has asked all affiliated schools to map students’ mother tongues “at the earliest” and align instructional materials accordingly ...

“Those who speak English will soon feel ashamed,” Home Minister Amit Shah said last month, igniting a heated debate about national identity and social mobility in the polyglot nation of 1.4 billion.

In contemporary India, the scope of the English language has extended beyond being a colonial legacy to a language of socio-economic mobility, employability, and much more. It is now the language ...

Languages are the pedigrees of nations. — Samuel Johnson A land of vastly mixed pedigrees, India has been forced to concede again that its own indispensable language is English. After meeting with the ...

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There is still a massive portion of India’s population that does not have access to English education. So giving it the status of national language would lead to the marginalisation of already ...

Does it pay to speak English? This column by Mehtabul Azam, an economist at the World Bank, Aimee Chin, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Houston, and Nishith Prakash, Visiting ...