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In 1887, an Egyptian woman dug for fertilizer in the ruins of Amarna and uncovered the lost diplomatic network of the Bronze AgeWhile searching for fertilizer in 1887, an Egyptian woman made a startling discovery: baked clay tablets that would come to be known as the...- The great leader, liberator of rudePolitics has transformed into a theatrical performance where leaders trade their suits for comedy club mic stands—minus the humor. Rudeness...
- Pema Khandu advocates Hindi as lingua franca in Arunachal PradeshArunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu announced that the state has adopted Hindi as its lingua franca and will establish a Kendriya ...
- FIFA World Cup 2022: Why is Tariq Lamptey representing Ghana rather than England in Qatar?Tariq Lamptey is looking for big things with Ghana at the World Cup, but he might have played for England instead.
- North Eastern Council launches new training course in HindiThe programme on "Implementation of Functional Hindi Course in Professional Colleges of NER" has been initiated with the help of Dr. Kalam ...
- Hindi is already a lingua francaFor higher education and global communication, English remains the oyster. Its monopoly as a social status tool diminishing, it is now more...
- Brexit should not mean Engxit tooEnglish is like the potato—it absorbs regional flavours and becomes indispensable.
- How an entertainment talk show became a window to the lingua franca of India'Koffee With Karan' taught several generations of small-town kids how to speak English.
- It’s time for a new name for englishEurenglish, Scandlish, franglais or Deutschlish would be merely part of a hoary tradition of localised English.
- If deprived of Chinglish, fall back on IndlishThese cryptic signs certainly add a frisson of mystery to quotidian tasks of English speakers such as buying groceries.
- Languages create barrier in scientific knowledge transferLondon, Dec 30 (IANS) Despite the assumption that English is the lingua franca of global science, one-third of new conservation science doc...
- Brexit need not lead to an Englixit tooEnglish’s diminished status as the language of only 1% of EU has predictably led to a call for its ouster, but would France and Germany wil...
- Delhi University Hindi teachers unite! You’ve nothing to lose but your jobsA petition demanding that Hindi be returned as a compulsory language in DU colleges has been signed by more than 100 teachers and sent to t...
- Nothing official about American EnglishThat Yiddish or Hindi have as much standing in the US as American English will surely be an ego boost for minority language speakers there.
- Why call it Indian-English or Nigerian-English? Indian or Nigerian would doWords from all sorts of languages & sources finding a place in what is called the Collins English Dictionary, begs the question whether the...
- Miscommunication will end when English, other languages coalesceCirca 2512 will there still be as many major languages and countless smaller ones or will everyone communicate and converse.
- Whatever is more simple to pronounce should prevailThe government has finally read the writing on the wall that Hinglish is the way forward, even in official communication.
- Towards a new word order: Stop the jargon-autNearly every country, whatever its lingua franca, is plagued by the incomprehensible prose that administrators favour.
- English medium: A Large Leap ForwardThe blinding realisation that English is in — even if England is out of the Fifa World Cup — has also now struck the powers that run Delhi’...
- Hindi should be taught in all schools: SibalUnion Minister Kapil Sibal on Monday strongly batted for teaching Hindi in all schools, saying fluency in the national language will help i...
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