In contemporary India, the scope of the English language has extended beyond being a colonial legacy to a language of socio-economic mobility, employability, and much more. It is now the language ...

A French man’s X post listing quirky English phrases he learned from his Indian wife has gone viral, and it’s got us smiling at how unique and sweet our version of English really is. Indians have ...

Rushdie in New York. Ghosh in Brooklyn. Lahiri in Rome. Desai between continents. Almost every Indian English novelist the world celebrates lives outside India. The pattern is not coincidental. It is ...

Do India’s 1.3 billion people need English? Not according to Vice President Venkaiah Naidu. At an event last week in New Delhi to mark “Hindi day,” Mr. Naidu called English “a disease left behind by ...

The noise around English and its role in India’s cultural disintegration has not subsided after 78 years of independence. Whenever someone discusses language extinction, English is invariably the ...

I remember walking down a busy street in Delhi during my first stay in India and noting the different ways in which the same words were written in Latin script. Lakshmi here, Luxmi there. Since then I ...