Last month, linguist Ganesh Devy, also founder director of the Bhasha Research and Publication Centre, Vadodara, released 11 volumes of the People's Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI), touted to be the ...

PATNA: Abhay Kumar Pandey, retired research specialist in planning and development department of Bihar, is the secretary of Purvanchal Lok Utthan Avam Shodh Parishad. He had been associated with many ...

About 130,000 Indians travelled to Trinidad as indentured migrants in the 19th and 20th centuries. The early migrants went from villages in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh and spoke variations of Bhojpuri, ...

The pitfalls of forcing the use of Hindi on non-Hindi states have often been commented upon. But the hegemonic project is also threatening to subsume languages like Magadhi and Bhojpuri in the ...

“Laudable indeed,” remarked my husband. “Talking of ‘one tongue’, our politicians, instead of squabbling over three-language formulas and other such issues, should take a leaf out of our cricket ...

When I first heard about Bhasha, I wondered what it could be. An ‘Indian Languages Digital Festival’ was something never heard before. But somewhere “India Languages” rang familiar notes. I had ...