Vanishing voices that predict a larger crisis
In 2008, a linguist named David Harrison travelled deep into the forests of Siberia searching for speakers of an almost forgotten language called Chulym.
In 2008, a linguist named David Harrison travelled deep into the forests of Siberia searching for speakers of an almost forgotten language called Chulym.
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.
Aligned with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, the scheme aims to encourage young writers to contribute to nation building through their writing and ideas.
Recently, there has been a public debate around the “Macaulay mindset”. English again has found a central place in India’s education discourse.
As the pre-Puja crowd has started swelling in the city’s lifeline transport, the Kolkata Metro Railway has put up boards carrying instructions of do’s and don’ts for the commuters.
The alumni association of Serampore Girls' High School, Lal Barir Atit Gantha, hosted a spectacular inter-school cultural competition last Sunday, drawing over 350 participants.
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.
For the first time a 10-day long summer internship on sustainable tourism and cultural heritage of Jhargram, organised by the department of English of the state-run Jhargram Raj College, concluded today.
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.
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.
