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Language is the most crucial aspect of cultural capital. Inscriptions in Tamil carved on the stone walls of the Brihadeeswara temple in Thanjavur.

The rising threat to Indian languages

The missing Census 2021, the NEP, and the rapid growth in AI have endangered them.

At an event to mark the 99th birth anniversary of Annabhau Sathe at Pattankodoli village, near Kolhapur, Maharashtra. .

Why Indian democracy needs more ‘unlettered’ literary figures

Those courageous voices would bring the republic back to the norms envisioned in the Constitution.

BJP supporters wearing Narendra Modi masks during a campaign rally for the Tripura Assembly election, in Agartala on February 13.

Bhakti: Then and Now

Today, it is directed at a living person who communicates through an elaborate digital set-up.

The title page of “Gitanjali” in English translation, which won its author Rabindranath Tagore the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.

The Indian ease with translation and multilingualism

It cannot be understood by an ideology that thinks of every “other” as an enemy within.

The great Indian family

A strict population control policy sounds good on paper, but it ignores sociological correlations.

Kalpana Gagdekar (centre) as Kasturba in Narayan Desai’s play.

Women who make us what we are

The quiet, unstated strength of the people flow out of the millions of incarnations of Mother India.

People reading at a public library in Fort Kochi. A file photograph.

Small-print India: The time is now

Our passion for democracy is explicit in “small-print” publications brought out by local communities.

Rahul Gandhi with youngsters in Nanded, Maharashtra, during the yatra.

Bharat Jodo Yatra: A semiotic experiment and the power of non-lingual message

The appeal of the Bharat Jodo Yatra is not in what it says, but in its ability to move millions of hearts and minds.

A typical village somewhere in West Bengal.

The Asian village: Fragile but resilient, holding on to its place

It has an instinct for survival that surpasses the existential desire of other social organisations.

At the Dakshinayana Sarv Bhasha Samwad in Dandi on January 30, 2016. The Dakshinayana movement has spread into many States. Writers all over the country understand it as an advocacy of the freedom of expression.

Birth of a movement: When Dakshinayana began from Dandi

It makes sense of the unease among writers when eliminating “thought adversaries” is on the rise.

A Kunkana tribal dance during a tribal festival at Saputara.

Ramayana a living and contemporary narrative for the Kunkanas of Gujarat

The Kunkana Adivasi community lives on the border between Maharashtra and Gujarat.

Pramod Bodo (extreme left) along with the newly elected executive members after taking oath as the chief of Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) in Kokrajhar, Assam, on December 15, 2020.

An institute of Bodology to investigate the past

The Bodos are constructing a comprehensive picture of the Brahmaputra civilisation.