This year, the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture (RMIC) in Golpark, Calcutta, has introduced a six-month communicative Hindi course. “It is called Batchit, meaning conversation in Hindi,” says ...

It was during her volunteering stint with an NGO teaching English to slum kids that Dr Cathy Day made an acute observation about how ‘class’ or the ‘social stature’ plays a role in how Hindi is used ...

Marina and Mauro Sarandrea spent many years in Uttar Pradesh but only picked up a smattering of Hindi. On Saturday, at Cotton Hill school, Vazhuthacaud, the couple, in the company of scores of ...