Dr Rishikesh Tewari becomes first English-language writer to receive Oxford's Lifetime Achievement Award. The honour ...

“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 ...

Thomas Babington Macaulay envisioned a class of Indian interpreters to aid British rule. Instead, India produced a global intelligentsia of leaders, innovators, and authors. This diaspora has excelled ...

“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.