In nineteenth-century Bengal, a woman sat inside a crowded zamindari kitchen secretly trying to teach herself how to read. She had no books of her own, no teacher, and almost no time to think beyond ...

The new CBSE policy for Class 9 mandates that students must study three languages (R1, R2, and R3), with at least two being native Indian languages.

For someone who had spent most of his life studying constructed languages, the idea of constructing his own death would ...

Hundreds ‘pushed’ to border and many others put in detention centres as part of a crackdown on undocumented migrants.

On 20 August 1947, the Director of Public Instruction for the Education Directorate of the newly created state of West Bengal ...

The usual suspects are up in arms at the news Lupita Nyong’o will play the mythic beauty in the new movie The Odyssey. Our Writer at Large ...

The literary map of India is being redrawn by those who refuse to see borders between the ancient and the modern, or the ...

In 1953, a Brazilian woman in her early fifties stepped off a plane in Delhi at the personal invitation of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. She was not a politician – she was a poet. Cecília Meireles ...

For years, a certain kind of phone call could change the shape of my whole day. The number would flash, I would steady myself ...

Dhillon, while remembering the dark chapter, says June 6 remains one of the most painful and unfortunate days in Sikh history ...

Sequoyah’s syllabary faced suspicion initially, but after a demonstration, his version of “talking leaves” was widely ...

On May 28, 2026, the last of the progenitors of modern Urdu poetry, Bashir Badr, left the grand mushaira of the living and ...