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 ...

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.

Supporters of Hindi might well claim that it is the language of pop culture or literature, but that’s not enough. You have to engage with the future and neither Tamil nor Hindi is doing it ...

"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.

The policy promotes a three-language formula, which many in Tamil Nadu see as a ‘backdoor attempt’ to impose Hindi on the state. The state has even been denied education funds for rejecting it.

Hindi: The number of students opting for Hindi nearly doubled, from 179,857 in 2019 to 357,908 in 2024. Tamil: Students taking the exam in Tamil increased significantly, from 17,101 in 2020 to ...

When the three-language formula was introduced in 1968, Tamil Nadu opposed it, seeing it as an attempt to impose Hindi. Under Chief Minister C N Annadurai, the state adopted a two-language policy ...