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- Beyond imperial arrogance or nationalist resentment lies India's capacity to use English to reinventThomas Babington Macaulay envisioned a class of Indian interpreters to aid British rule. Instead, India produced a global intelligentsia of...10 Dec, 2025, 11.35 PM IST
- PM Modi's Ramnath Goenka Lecture served as both economic outlook, cultural call to action: Shashi TharoorCongress leader Shashi Tharoor attended Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Ramnath Goenka Lecture. He described the speech as an economic outlo...18 Nov, 2025, 03.55 PM IST
- Puri's Rath Yatra has a surprising connection to English word 'juggernaut', the unstoppable force. Check its originAs Puri’s sacred chariots roll once again for the 2025 Rath Yatra, few realise the global legacy of this ancient tradition. Misinterpreted ...27 Jun, 2025, 02.15 PM IST
- Mind your (English) language!Amidst debates over Hindi's imposition, English in India faces a curious situation. Recent political squabbles highlight contrasting views ...11 Apr, 2025, 11.53 PM IST
- Maharashtra council passes resolution to rename seven local train stationsThe Maharashtra legislative council unanimously passed a resolution to rename seven Mumbai local train stations. The Mahayuti government, l...09 Jul, 2024, 02.32 PM IST
- Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah says many works of ‘Golden Age’ British authors were openly racistThe British-Tanzanian author won the 2021 Nobel Prize for books such as 'Paradise' and 'Memory of Departure' exploring Europe's colonial le...13 Nov, 2023, 07.21 PM IST
- Parliament panel adopts reports on criminal lawsA parliamentary committee on home affairs, led by BJP member Brij Lal, has adopted three reports on bills aiming to replace existing crimin...06 Nov, 2023, 04.54 PM IST
- View: India’s criminal justice system needs real decolonising, and must go beyond mere textual changesThe historical roots of IPC unveil a narrative of colonial imposition. Macaulay's presumption of Western legal (and civilisational) superio...16 Aug, 2023, 10.57 PM IST
- Skirmish over English: Loreto College in Kolkata revokes age-old admission policy that debarred students from vernacular mediums, issues apologyEarlier, the woman’s college, affiliated with the University of Calcutta had debarred students hailing from vernacular schools in its first...05 Jul, 2023, 03.38 PM IST
- African continent’s native languages get neglected. See whyAccording to Tawana Kupe, only 25% African languages are used in secondary education and 5% in higher education across the continent.20 Nov, 2022, 01.33 AM IST
- Govt highlights steps taken in 8 years to free country of 'colonial mindset'The government said the move is part of a continuous and conscious effort by the prime minister to shed the baggage of colonial legacy and ...08 Sep, 2022, 04.52 PM IST
- Barbadian writer George Lamming, a literary giant who chronicled Caribbean colonial experience, dies at 94His calling was to address the crimes of history, unearth and preserve his native culture.20 Jun, 2022, 08.39 AM IST
- Aspirations, as Dalits martial memoriesAn East Indian Company force comprising, among others, ‘untouchable’ Mahars, who had forced a division of the Peshwa’s army to retreat.04 Jan, 2018, 07.30 AM IST
- Inside the privileged world of the Marwari Garden PartySelective, private, and with a touch of colonial elegance: the garden party is all this and more!24 Apr, 2017, 11.53 AM IST
- ‘Westminster model of democracy not suited to us … India needs a presidential form of government’Parliamentary vulnerability to legislative majorities has also produced governments obliged to focus more on politics than on policy or per...16 Nov, 2016, 03.44 PM IST
- Old colonial legacy in a new lightLike and share: Facebook and Twitter English won’t help create either.04 Nov, 2015, 01.01 AM IST
- Scholars mark 100 years of Mahatma Gandhi's return to India from South AfricaAcademicians from around the world who converged here to mark the centenary of Mahatma Gandhi's return to India from South Africa.03 Mar, 2015, 07.04 AM IST
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