It is 2pm, and a seven-year-old boy sits in an after-school Urdu remedial class, his fingers tracing the unfamiliar curves of the words before him. The sentence on the page seems simple enough: “Yeh ...

Lalit Gupta It was only after encountering Mikhail Bakhtin one too many times and delving into his formulation ‘heteroglossia’-a term that celebrates the coexistence of multiple voices within language ...

For many young readers feeling distant from their native cultures, translated books offer a way back home. “The idea that ...

As she finishes a sentence in Hindi with great difficulty, PM Modi tells her, 'It's okay, you can use English words in ...