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Padma Viswanathan has been longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026 for her English translation of Brazilian author Ana Paula Maia's On Earth As It Is Beneath Photo: Alex Tran/https://padmaviswanathan.com/)

'Tamil is my next project': Booker-longlisted translator Padma Viswanathan

March 26, 2026 5:16 pm

Padma Viswanathan, a Canadian-American writer of Indian origin, has been longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026 for her translation of Ana Paula Maia's On Earth As It Is Beneath. She speaks to The Indian Express

To reclaim the republic, we need, first of all, a shared language and humility

Beyond Bengali dominance: Kamtapuri isn't 'chhotoloker bhasha', it is a language with its own world

February 24, 2026 2:43 pm

We need to save culture, language and climate together. They are enmeshed in memories and practice. One cannot survive without the other

Banaras Lit Fest Veteran writer Namita Gokhale.

Namita Gokhale, Mahadev Toppo, Peggy Mohan among winners at Banaras Lit Fest Book Awards 2026

February 02, 2026 4:56 pm

The Banaras Lit Fest announced its 2026 Book Awards, honouring Namita Gokhale and writers across Indian languages for excellence in literature.

Manuscript of 'Vinaya Pitaka': First section of the Pali Canon containing rules for Buddhist monks (Image via Wikimedia Commons)

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 , mains, India’s Linguistic Landscape: From constitutional safeguards to endangered languages

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.