Recently, the Indian news site Scroll.in had an interesting debate on the relative merits of writing the Hindi language in the Roman alphabet instead of the native Devanagari script, triggered by a ...

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 ...

Since coming into power in May 2014, the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance government has issued a number of official orders, circulars and notifications that it claims are ...

Bengal governor's assertion of Hindi as the national language reignites long-standing debates on linguistic identity in India ...

Hindi Diwas, which is observed on 14 September, is a milestone day in Indian post-independence history when Hindi in the Devanagari script was formally declared as the language of the Union by the ...

A Maharashtra government notification makes Hindi the default third language in schools. The earlier decision to make Hindi compulsory faced significant opposition and protests. The revised ...

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