Congress leader Shashi Tharoor attended Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Ramnath Goenka Lecture. He described the speech as an economic outlo...

The author reflects on the common experience of Indians being complimented on their English proficiency by Westerners, particularly in Brit...

The Thadou community in Manipur holds that it is a distinct ethnic group with its own language, culture, and history, separate from the Kuk...

At the ET Soonicorns Summit 2024, Mayank Kumar will explore a critical question that many developers and coders face today: ‘Will future de...

The British-Tanzanian author won the 2021 Nobel Prize for books such as 'Paradise' and 'Memory of Departure' exploring Europe's colonial le...

Moscow's invasion last year has caused a cultural upheaval in Ukrainian society that has run parallel to the fighting. Monuments to Russian...

Research scholars could have churned out many treatises based on just the records of this one family; but would they have written it in the...

Europe thinks about its relationship with India the way the U.S. once did — as a partnership that goes beyond the transactional, in which e...

"I remember having asked a child in a remote village what election meant. He said election is a game, it means 'maramari hobe' (there will ...

Legal fees to approach the top courts are prohibitive, judgements are often delivered in English making it unfathomable for the ordinary li...

We should pick up this neat ‘poco’ trick from New Zealand.

If you view the colonial period as a harmful aberration, you will tend to think India can catch up as it leaves these distortions behind.

A study has found that an overwhelming 97 per cent of engineers in the country cannot speak English, required for jobs in corporate sales a...

A proper teaching of Sanskrit can help foster self-assuredness and humanity, in the way that reading Latin and Greek did for generations of...

Writings of eight Indian authors in English, their potrayal of modern India and what their works suggest about the country form the crux of...

"It is an exciting prospect to have students from two continents exchanging ideas on literature from Chaucer to Shakespeare."

Even as Indian institutions of higher education have drawn flak for failing to make the top 200 in overall university rankings, DU’s Englis...