When someone talks about the classical language, they don't refer to the raags or taals of Indian classical music. Instead, they typically refer to ancient languages like Tamil, Malayalam, Sanskrit, ...

The Central government during the Union Cabinet meeting on Thursday approved to confer the status of classical language to Marathi, Pali, Prakrit, Assamese, and Bengali languages. With this addition, ...

Where on earth does a government recognise languages as classical? It happens only in India! But why? The plain answer is appeasing the linguistic and cultural sub-nationalities―an instance of ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday asked the central government to officially list Bengali as a “classical language”. Ms. Banerjee ...

They declared 'Tamil' to be the classical language based on its over-a-millennium-long history, valuable texts and literature, and originality. However, there had to be a team of experts to determine ...