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Assamese cinema: Speaking in new tongues

Assamese directors are making films in dialects which have had negligible cinematic representation so far

3 min read6 Apr 2018
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Other tongues: the stunning lingual diversity of India

A wealth of linguistic richness exists outside what are called the official languages of India

6 min read28 Oct 2017
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Of ‘standard’ languages and ‘impure’ dialects

Why a certain variant of the language came to be regarded as the 'standard' and why its variants were demoted to 'dialect' status is a product of history and politics

6 min read16 Sep 2017
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A language buried by Partition

Long considered a Punjabi dialect, Seraiki is mostly forgotten in India, while in Pakistan, a thirst for an identity that Partition altered has revived interest in it

6 min read24 Jun 2017
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The Scottish surgeon who “discovered” Hindoostanee

John Borthwick Gilchrist, part of the East India company's medical corps in Calcutta, translated Aesop's Fables into Urdu, Persian, Arabic, Sanskrit and Bengali

4 min read13 Jun 2015

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The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared

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