Undoing Macaulay? Inside India’s decolonisation push towards ‘Bharat’

India is actively pursuing a decolonisation agenda, moving beyond English's historical dominance. This initiative, championed ...

What is RT, the media network coming to India with Putin?

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to India is set to feature the launch of RT India, a full-fledged bureau of Russia’s ...
Opinion

Shashi Tharoor wades into English–Macaulay row, argues India should reject mindset of slavery, not the language

Shashi Tharoor argues that India should adopt the English language while rejecting the colonial mindset imposed by Thomas Macaulay's educational reforms. He emphasises that English has empowered India ...

Beyond imperial arrogance or nationalist resentment lies India's capacity to use English to reinvent

Thomas Babington Macaulay envisioned a class of Indian interpreters to aid British rule. Instead, India produced a global ...