Tongue Ties
1. yes. tongue is another hand i have to caress, write and grope through our hominan…
2014
Let there be Lies: Making the Map of a Universe of Make-Believe
Are insight and deception two sides of the same coin? Koli Mitra considers how the artifice…
WORDS
The very words we use to define ourselves or anything in our world, and even the…
Lost.. and Gained, in Translation
Arunava Sinha considers how languages and their literary output are essentially lost, and yet something of…
AIYOo, Telugu By-Heart ?
Is there such a thing as being ‘literate’ in a language without being ‘fluent’ in it?…
Spying on Hyperspace
Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy was in search of the best language(s) to learn in order to…
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,…