Spying on Hyperspace
Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy was in search of the best language(s) to learn in order to…
April, 2014
three hundred englishes
English is, in Indian life, much more than a medium of communication. It is a marker…
can language save us all?
Scholars of philology, work heroically to understand long dead languages… in a way, they work to…
Lyrics of Love and Longing
Something about a native tongue inspires feelings of kinship and solidarity in ways that can sometimes…
WORDS AND WORLDS: LINGUICIDE
Languages of the world are becoming extinct at an alarming rate, and with them, entire cultures,…
Living with the “Language”
I suddenly find myself living in a world Haunted by word-monsters They are bursting with intelligence…
On The Shaman’s Couch. Why Only Indians Can Save Our Modern Soul
We all know the spirit of modernity is dying. Two overlapping processes, globalization and global warming,…
Rwanda: A Time To Remember
Twenty years after the Rwandan genocide, the world – which largely ignored the carnage at the…
In Conversation with Anita Nair
It’s probably easiest to introduce Anita Nair as a bestselling author, but one look at her…