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Washington University in St. Louis is home to hundreds of international students from all over the world.

Speaking my mother tongue

Americans are now raising their children to be bilingual or even multilingual.

21 Feb 2018 3:04 AM IST

Most at risk are marginal tribal communities whose children receive no education or, if they do go to school, are taught in one of Indias 22 officially recognised languages. (Photo: Representational/File)

Over 19,500 languages spoken in India as mother tongue: Census

There are 121 languages which are spoken by 10,000 or more people in India, which has a population of 121 crore, it...

1 July 2018 4:42 PM IST

The results revealed that emotion words vary greatly in their meaning across languages, despite being equated in translation dictionaries. (Photo: ANI)

In a changing world, it's vital people continue to use their mother...

The beauty of academic education is that the majority of it comes from books that can be more easily produced in areas...

20 Feb 2020 2:12 AM IST

Milan Kunderas last work was A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe, published this year. (Image: DC)

AA EDIT | Farewell Milan Kundera

An author, once quoted by a journalist, is no longer master of his word

14 July 2023 12:00 AM IST

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All courses should be taught in Indian languages: Venkaiah Naidu

If teaching and learning in Indian languages is not promoted, future generations won't be able to speak their mother...

17 May 2018 8:22 AM IST

CPI(M) MP Ritabrata Banerjee (Photo: YouTube)

Allow mother tongue for civil services main exam: CPI(M)

Ritabrata Banerjee said, civil services aptitude test in English was discriminatory against Hindi and eight other...

22 March 2017 1:52 PM IST