“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.

Rather than viewing it as an either-or choice, a multilingual model that includes both English and regional languages seems ...

An extraordinary author-translator collaboration produced a book, “Heart Lamp,” that was lauded for enriching the English language. By Pragati K.B. Reporting from New Delhi Banu Mushtaq’s book “Heart ...

Japan is the world’s 12 th biggest country in terms of global population with 123 million residents but it leads Press Gazette’s ranking of the biggest circulation newspapers in the world. According ...

PORTUGUESE are said to have brought the earliest printing press to the Indo-Pak subcontinent. In 1550, a Portuguese ship brought printing machinery to a port in Malabar, Southwest India. No matter how ...

A cache of preserved newspapers from 1966 has emerged from a melting glacier in France, the latest in a string of objects that have been revealed as the glacier retreats. A cache of preserved ...