India's first ever feature film - Raja Harishchandra - in 1913, was made in the Marathi language. Over the past few decades, though, Marathi cinema lost its way, overshadowed by Hindi films from ...

Maharashtra is embroiled in a language controversy following the government's decision to mandate Hindi for Class I students. Ajay Devgn humorously addressed the debate, while Shilpa Shetty affirmed ...

Opposition to the National Education Policy in Maharashtra isn’t just about language – it’s a flashpoint in India’s struggle between centralization and cultural pluralism. In recent weeks, the Indian ...

As elections near, Maharashtra’s politics increasingly weaponises language, with migrant workers bearing the brunt of a narrative that contradicts India’s constitutional ethos The politics of language ...

For the past few weeks, we have been reading and watching about a lot of incidents in Maharashtra where people who don’t know the Marathi language are being attacked by the members of a political ...

What’s in a language? Lots, if we are talking about the linguistic fencing in Maharashtra over Marathi and Hindi. A day before eminent lawyer Ujjwal Nikam was nominated to the Rajya Sabha, PM Narendra ...

Mumbai: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on Monday said while Hindi may be spoken widely, it is not a national language to be imposed on other states, and attempts to place it ...