Bengal puts read before Red: 'globalisation is here, we need English'
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Last Friday, Biswas met British minister for schools, David Miliband, and said he should provide him more British trainers who would coach Bengal teachers to speak better English.
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Why China's about to give India a run for its money.
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In the land of Goethe, Denglish, a combination of Deutsch and English, is on the march.
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Designers who are sounding the alarm on global homogenization make a certain kind of sense.
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People are asked to submit their favourite word to highlight the need for universal  education.
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The headlines around South Asia
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The proportion of primary school pupils with English as a second language has risen by 73% in a decade.
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BANGALORE, INDIA - An anticipated boom in mobile telephony use in India is attracting multinational and local companies to establish manufacturing operations in the country.
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English is on the march through Europe, invading the languages of Moliere, Cervantes and Goethe, dominating the fields of technology and business and even taking some native tongues hostage.
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The enlargement of the European Union from 15 to 25 member-states with nine new languages has created a kind of linguistic big bang in Brussels, with new headaches for intepreters.
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The demographic future belongs to cities like Mumbai, Shanghai and Dhaka.
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Global understanding could improve dramatically over the next 10 years through the simple fact that by 2015, a good proportion of the planet's population will be able to speak English, according to a recent study.
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A mosque bombing serves as a reminder that even as India roars ahead at the cutting edge of globalizing modernity, it is still torn by ancient hatreds
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India is set to make its debut at the G7 next month, becoming only the third outside country to attend a meeting of the club of rich nations in a sign of its growing importance as a world economic power.
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NEW DELHI: With all the flap about whether India should get the veto or not, the real culprit here seemed to have been the language barrier.
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Home to some 1.5 billion people, South Asia is paying a high price to access the Internet as service providers have been slow to deliver cheaper broadband connections, analysts say.
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The word 'globalization' seems to have evolved into a cliche and handy dandy fighting word for ideologues. The alternative (and often conflicting) definitions and interpretations are enough to make you dizzy.