During the last census in 2011, the surveyor who showed up at Yasmin Shaikh's doorstep did what people often do when they hear her name—he assumed. "Urdu," he wrote in the mother tongue column without ...

The survey states that students’ fluency in Marathi is equally bad, with only 47% in Mumbai city and 55.5% in the suburbs being well-versed in the language. The state average stood at 50.76%. A survey ...