The fifth-grade boys and girls at school in Sultanpur — a village about 40 km from the Indian capital, New Delhi — are laboring over their lessons on a Friday morning. Eleven-year-old Kiran alternates ...

“To even to enquire about taking a language course – it takes a lot of courage,” says Barbara Dick at New York Language Center, and she is well placed to comment. Dick is the executive director of a ...

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“Those who speak English will soon feel ashamed,” Home Minister Amit Shah said last month, igniting a heated debate about national identity and social mobility in the polyglot nation of 1.4 billion.

English is no longer just a language, it is an infrastructure for participation in work, travel, education, and global ...

In a previous article on the role of English in India, I argued that privileging English over Indian languages hurts Indian education and economic development. While this is the most profound effect ...

On a humid Tuesday in a government school, one English teacher looks out at sixty ninth- graders and asks a simple question: “Tell me about your weekend.” A handful speak. Most look down. This is not ...

Many Indians struggle with speaking English despite understanding it well. An IIT graduate’s AI tutor aims to make fluent ...

On the 12 June, Air India flight 171 from Ahmedabad to London crashed less than a minute after take-off, killing 241 people on board and 19 on the ground. The preliminary report, published by India's ...