The India Habitat Centre inaugurated 'Bhasha,' a library section featuring publications in various Indian languages. Launched on International Mother Language Day, it aims to celebrate linguistic ...

Ganesh Devy has spent decades documenting India’s hundreds of distinct languages. Up next: a 12,000-year history of India he hopes will help counter the government’s Hindu-first campaign. By Sameer ...

Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Researchers contribute a new piece to this puzzle. They analyzed ancient DNA from 435 individuals from archaeological sites across Eurasia ...

A Union government panel has sought to portray India’s many languages as "one family" bound together by Sanskrit, rejecting long-established linguistic classifications as colonial prejudice and ...

India is home to great writing systems such as the Brāhmī and the Kharosthī that date back centuries. It’s also a land where languages such as Sanskrit, Tamil and Kannada have etched an oral history ...

When British traders landed on India’s shores in the 1600s, they arrived in search of spices and silk but stayed for centuries – leaving behind a legacy that would shape the nation long after their ...