In Marwari, 78-year-old Leela Somani’s mother tongue, there is an old saying: When times change, only two aspects of a culture remain — its bheent (monuments) and its geet (songs). In the 1950s, ...

The chief minister of Rajasthan, Vasundhara Raje, launched a new ad-campaign and a logo for the state’s tourism department in January this year hoping to significantly boost the number of tourists.

To mark Mother Language Day (February 21) in 2020, we wrote about the significance of mother tongues in allowing us to access our pasts and our identities: “One’s mother tongue is really one’s oral ...