The fifth-grade boys and girls at school in Sultanpur — a village about 40 km from the Indian capital, New Delhi — are laboring over their lessons on a Friday morning. Eleven-year-old Kiran alternates ...

Thomas Babington Macaulay envisioned a class of Indian interpreters to aid British rule. Instead, India produced a global ...

“Those who speak English will soon feel ashamed,” Home Minister Amit Shah said last month, igniting a heated debate about national identity and social mobility in the polyglot nation of 1.4 billion.

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“To even to enquire about taking a language course – it takes a lot of courage,” says Barbara Dick at New York Language Center, and she is well placed to comment. Dick is the executive director of a ...

In a previous article on the role of English in India, I argued that privileging English over Indian languages hurts Indian education and economic development. While this is the most profound effect ...

On a humid Tuesday in a government school, one English teacher looks out at sixty ninth- graders and asks a simple question: “Tell me about your weekend.” A handful speak. Most look down. This is not ...

English is no longer just a language, it is an infrastructure for participation in work, travel, education, and global ...

Maharishi, an IIT Madras graduate, has developed Supernova AI, an English-speaking tutor designed to help Indians speak ...