Estranged for two decades, the Thackeray cousins are uniting against the perceived imposition of Hindi to revive their ...

During an event, C Prem Kumar revealed, “Now I can dare say that 96 was actually written for Hindi. I wanted to pitch it to ...

Radhakrishnan remarked that it is difficult to understand the problems of people across the country unless one knows Hindi.

The Tamil Nadu Chief Minister spoke about the victory rally held in Mumbai under Uddhav Thackeray's leadership and said the ...

The imposition of Hindi, strongly opposed by the DMK in Tamil Nadu, has sparked resistance in Maharashtra. Leaders like M K ...

Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday took a swipe at Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis over the ...

Hindi is spoken mostly in northern India, and efforts by Mr. Modi’s Hindu nationalist government to impose the language in the south have been a source of friction and violence.

That, Tamil Nadu claims, shows that Modi’s education policies are a smokescreen to impose the three-language formula on the state and create a backdoor mechanism to push Hindi.

With the debate over Tamil Nadu ’s refusal to adopt the three-language policy still ongoing, the latest data needed to address key questions on the issue is lacking.

The language revolution of 1965 did not achieve complete success in eliminating Hindi, but the movement against Hindi’s dominance had a great impact in Tamil Nadu.

Hindi speakers are being employed in banks, creating a language divide between the service provider and the consumer. One can rarely see Kannadigas in these positions.

"Tamil Nadu has never opposed individuals learning Hindi or any other language. What we oppose is the imposition of Hindi or any language on the people of our state," he said.