Indigenous languages in Tamil Nadu, like Toda and Kota, face extinction due to migration and language shift. The University of Madras's IELLAB is working to document and preserve these critically ...

BERKELEY — Learning a new language can sometimes be a hobby or requirement, but for Brian Linebaugh, it became a lifelong pursuit that led him across the world and ultimately inspired a documentary ...

On January 23, 1968, against the backdrop of Parliament passing the Official Languages (Amendment) Act, the first DMK government, headed by C.N. Annadurai, adopted a resolution in the Madras Assembly ...

A Catholic priest in southern Tamil Nadu state has won a literature award named after an Anglican missionary and a Tamil scholar for the first time this year. The state Department of Tamil Development ...

India's three-language policy is back at the centre of national debate, and the argument is the same one it has always been.

Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin on Saturday (February 21, 2026) released the fourth volume of the comparative etymological dictionary of Tamil and Indo-European languages and inaugurated an ...

When ISIS claimed responsibility for the coordinated bombings in Sri Lanka that killed more than 350 people, it did so, as one would expect, in Arabic and English. But it also issued statements in ...