A recent Hyderabad event sparked backlash when Rishabh Shetty spoke only in Kannada, disappointing Telugu fans.

Maharashtra, long regarded as one of India’s most cosmopolitan states, has found itself reliving an old tension: a renewed battle over language. In the last few months, a state government order ...

India’s language policy debate — reignited by the National Education Policy’s implementation — reveals deeper tensions between the country’s state and central governments, with southern states ...