This summer I’ve been learning Tamil. Not only is it the primary language spoken in Tamil Nadu, a state in Southern India, it’s my mother tongue — a language everybody else in my family speaks.

The Tamil Language Learning and Promotion Committee has also been renamed the Tamil Promotion Committee. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

BERKELEY — Learning a new language can sometimes be a hobby or requirement, but for Brian Linebaugh, it became a lifelong pursuit that led him across the world and ultimately inspired a documentary ...

NEW DELHI: The fourth edition of the Kashi Tamil Sangamam, beginning December 2, will place a strong emphasis on enabling students from North India — particularly Uttar Pradesh — to learn Tamil ...

Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday underscored the central role of languages in sustaining India’s civilisational continuity, stating that the country’s languages, regions, and ...

The new curriculum asks that school students learn three languages from class 6 all the way up to class 10. It also ...

Tamil Nadu's language identity is once again at the center of a storm, as the state resists the National Education Policy (NEP) and its three-language mandate. The state's two-language policy, Tamil ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dancers from the Rameshwara Dance Group performing a Mayilattam, or peacock dance, at the launch of the Tamil Language Festival ...