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Demographic Turn

A decade after India attained independence, Aldous Huxley, an English writer and philosopher, was deeply pessimistic about the future of Indian culture that he had studied and long admired.

Beyond Macaulay

Recently, there has been a public debate around the “Macaulay mindset”. English again has found a central place in India’s education discourse.

Nationalist Movement~I

In the Indian nationalist movement, personalities and ideas emerged and evolved in response to British rule over a period of two centuries, first by the English East India Company and from 1858 the British parliament.

English a bridge, not a wall

Language is among the most profound gifts that human civilization has nurtured over millennia. It is through language that we think, remember, express, dream, and interact with the world around us.

Intellectual swadeshi

In our globalized age when higher education is on a dangerously slippery slope with government highhandedness creating distress among teachers and students alike, when academic and creative freedom is up against walls of indifference and hate, it is heartening to hear Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore delivering his first lecture in English in Madras on 9 February 1919.