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Language politics

“I regret having named him Sahil”: Urdu names in India

Akhlaq Ahmad at work on the mural in Shahdara for the ‘Delhi, I Love You’ project. (Image Credit: Delhi, I Love You) On July 8, 2020, The Wire published an…

Rizwan AhmadJuly 24, 2020

Multilingual histories

How to end native speaker privilege

Native and non-native teachers at Lord Harris' School, Royapett, Madras, 1865 (Source: British Library) For some time now, a debate has been raging in TESOL about the relative merits of…

Ingrid PillerMay 31, 2018

Language politics

Language Politics and Policy in Contemporary Maharashtra

Hutatma Smarak (Martyrs's Memorial) on Flora Square in Mumbai constructed in the memory of 106 people killed during the agitation for the creation of Unified Maharashtra. The two individuals in…

Deepak PawarJanuary 28, 2015

Language learning

Bilingualism delays onset of dementia

Multilingual Hyderabad (Source: Wikimedia) It is by now widely known that bilingualism delays the onset of dementia. What is less widely known is the fact that this knowledge is almost…

Ingrid PillerNovember 11, 2013

Language in education

Learning to be marginal

Much of my research over the past decade has involved talking to migrants to Australia and overseas students about their experiences of language learning and settlement. In these conversations, I…

Ingrid PillerMay 24, 2011

English as a global language

Barbarous multilingual devil worshippers

I’ve just run a search for the terms “multilingual” and “multilingualism” in the National Library of Australia’s archive of Historic Australian Newspapers, 1803-1954. In the process, I have learnt that…

Ingrid PillerAugust 16, 2010

Multilingual histories

Accent and history

This is the story of a young Pakistani man, let’s call him Reza. Reza spent his early years in what was then East-Pakistan and what is today a different country,…

Muhammad Ali KhanJune 10, 2010

How to end native speaker privilege

Bilingualism delays onset of dementia

Learning to be marginal

Barbarous multilingual devil worshippers

Accent and history

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