When we call Kalidas the Shakespeare of India, the comparisons reveal an inferiority complex.

Why a course on Harry Potter is absolutely meaningless for Indian law students

Law and literature are entwined. But what good an insight into Potterverse would do to our law students!

13 ways of looking at English

13 ways of looking at English: This language gets work done in India

The title of the article alludes to the famous poem ‘Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird’ by the American poet Wallace Stevens with 13 arguments, like the 13 stanzas of the poem.

His love for the English language began with the big little magazine, the Reader’s Digest.

The secret to Shashi Tharoor’s vocabulary

Manpreet Singh Badal who is a law graduate from the University of London provoked quite a storm when he questioned the English language proficiencies of the state’s civil bureaucracy.

Why Punjab minister's taunt about 'poor English' of babus has bureaucrats fuming

According to Manpreet Singh Badal, a University of London law graduate, most civil servants can't even draft a letter in English properly.

Why on earth should it be considered unnatural that one isn't very fluent in the language of a foreign nation?

Why the poor have no hope in hell in India

The best way to divide a country is to make its inhabitants negatively conscious of their own identity.

We do not need no educationists.

Why we don't need educationists to fix our broken education system

They are not really experts. They preside over an obsolete system, preaching politically correct truisms.

Chetan Bhagat, English, Delhi University, Meena Kandasamy

Chetan Bhagat as literature: We must forego some of our elitism

Writer Meena Kandasamy on why we must not be so quick to dismiss the best-selling writer.

Oh my desi! Why can't you live with the Indian accent?

Oh my desi! Why can't you live with my Indian accent?

It doesn't matter whether we speak inglis in Bihari or angreji in Punjabi.

Kids

How India's education system is breaking the country

Are we teaching our children a new criteria of divisiveness and discrimination?

The pen

Confessions of an English teacher training students for CAT

'This mnemonics business, if I let it pass, would sap all meaning from the class'.