Is English a foreign language in India? | In Focus Podcast
In this week’s In Focus-Parley, Experts Apoorvanand and Ganesh Devy discuss whether English should be considered a foreign language in India’s diverse linguistic landscape.
- ✓In this week’s In Focus-Parley, Experts Apoorvanand and Ganesh Devy discuss whether English should be considered a foreign language in India’s diverse linguistic landscape.
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Subscribed with another email? Logout and Login with that one. The Supreme Court has been discussing linguistics this month, while hearing challenges to the CBSE’s three-language formula, which mandates that two of the three must be native Indian languages, a category that does not include English.
The Bench has been debating whether English should be considered a foreign language in India, given its long history in the country, and its role as a link language in governance and in higher education. We discuss the same question in this week’s Parley, with Apoorvanand, a professor in the Hindi department of the University of Delhi, and Ganesh Devy, a former professor of English and the man behind the People’s Linguistic Survey of India project.
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| जारीकर्ता प्राधिकरण | The Hindu National |
|---|---|
| विषय श्रेणी | INDIA |
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