Modi said efforts were on to take the Tamil language, heritage to all corners of the world. Without naming anyone, Modi said he gets letters from leaders of Tamil Nadu, and "they do not sign in Tamil.

A decades-old spat over alleged Hindi imposition in the southern state of Tamil Nadu has erupted again. Here’s why.

The story so far: Tamil Nadu’s resistance to adopting ... will be in the home language or the mother tongue or the local language or the regional language. Thereafter, the home or local language ...

claims to promote flexibility in choosing academic streams and emphasises on using the mother tongue as a key medium of instruction in primary school, among other measures. Tamil Nadu has ...