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Bihar govt to establish two vernacular academies for Prakrit and Pali to preserve ancient languages
December 13, 2025 9:07 am
These two academies will work under the administrative control of the newly created department of Higher Education, according to a notification issued by the Cabinet Secretariat department on December 10.
IIT Madras’ AI4Bharat unveils new benchmark test for Indian languages, context
November 13, 2025 12:45 pm
Developed with support from Google Cloud, Indic LLM-Arena is a crowd-sourced platform that evaluates AI models on the basis of anonymous user votes.
Meta's new speech-to-text AI models cover 1,600 languages, including rare Indian dialects
November 12, 2025 10:02 am
Meta’s launch comes as Indian AI startups race to build Indic language models, bolstered by government-backed initiatives such as Mission Bhashini.
'Tera desh hai, jo marzi kar': Haryana man comforts worker from Maharashtra amid language debate, wins the Internet
July 11, 2025 11:48 am
The clip, which has gone viral over the last couple of days, features an interaction between Manu Sharma – a Haryanvi man – and a young man from Nashik, Maharashtra.
Hindi should be promoted. How about starting in the 'Hindi belt'
September 14, 2025 11:58 am
Hindi deserves love. Hindi deserves pride. Yet, all it gets is shrill, insecure chauvinism that wants to shove it down other people's throats, instead of nourishing it for its native speakers
Art and Culture with Devdutt Pattanaik | Rise of the Brahmi script
June 07, 2025 12:30 pm
The Indian script or the Brahmi script is a unique form of script known as abugida. But what makes the script, discovered in Ashokan edicts in 250 BC, unique?
UPSC Issue at a Glance | India’s Linguistic Landscape: From constitutional safeguards to endangered languages
June 06, 2025 12:33 pm
"Kos-kos par badle paani, chaar kos par baani" — this age-old saying beautifully captures the essence of India’s unmatched linguistic richness. With many languages spoken, multilingualism is seen as the backbone of India's democracy. Here's what you need to know about India's language landscape.
Top 10 most spoken languages in 2025: 5 Indian languages among global 20
May 15, 2025 10:32 am
Top 10 most spoken languages globally in 2025 list: According to recent research from Ethnologue, English is the most widely spoken language in the world in 2025. It is the native and second language of 1.53 billion individuals across 188 countries.
How American universities embraced the study of Indian languages
April 10, 2025 12:47 pm
While Indian languages have fascinated Western scholars for centuries, World War Two marked a tuning point, when American Universities started launching large programs for the study of Hindi, Sanskrit, Bengali and Punjabi
Harinath De: The scholar who knew 34 languages
April 08, 2025 12:51 pm
In a quiet suburb of Calcutta lived a man who mastered 34 languages, edited sacred texts, and became the first Indian librarian of the Imperial Library. At just 34 years old, he died of typhoid fever, but his legacy lives on.
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