languages of India

The cast of the Sanskrit play, "The Cleverness of the Thief." Patricia Sauthoff is in the center, wearing white.
Culture
Sanskrit is alive and well, but I prefer treating it as dead
Indian street sign in four languages: Hindi, English, Punjabi and Urdu.
Culture
India’s new leader favors the Hindi language, which is a problem for the country’s 50 million Urdu speakers
I tried to buy a Hindi book in Lucknow, but they're not that easy to find.  Most of the books for sale seem to be English titles.
Global Politics
When I went home to India, I tried to speak Hindi but everyone wanted to speak English
I tried to buy a Hindi book in Lucknow, but they're not that easy to find.  Most of the books for sale seem to be English titles.
Global Politics
When I went home to India, I tried to speak Hindi but everyone wanted to speak English
Images from the Tumblr, “This Could Have Been Frozen”
Arts, Culture & Media
No room for African or Indian languages in Disney’s multilingual version of ‘Let It Go’
Dancers relax after performing during a Diwali Festival in Silicon Valley
Arts, Culture & Media
Silicon Valley gets linguistic enlightenment from India
Global Politics
New York’s Bengali voters don’t get as much language support as they should
Linguists hope to save endangered languages in India
Pakistani scholars concerned that Urdu script being lost to technology
Pakistan set to require telecom companies to block messages from a bizarre word list
Global Politics
My Failed Calls to Send Ramadan Greetings from Lucknow to Lahore
The World in Words
Hinglish: A Case of Reverse Colonization?
Global Politics
A Push to Support Language Diversity in India
Arts, Culture & Media
Will Pakistan’s Urdu Script Be Lost in Texting Translation?
Arts, Culture & Media
Tamil Internet Sensation
Global Politics
Pakistan Bans Certain Words in Text Messages
Arts, Culture & Media
Tamil Language Trying to Keep Up With the Times
Arts, Culture & Media
Ghazal
Arts, Culture & Media
Mixing English in Pakistan