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 ...

A majority of students appearing in Class 10 and 12 board exams preferred Hindi as a medium of instruction, followed by English, an analysis conducted by the Ministry of Education (MoE) pointed out.

In several under-resourced schools across India, teachers are combining traditional methods with digital tools to teach spoken English, a strategy that aims to bridge the language gap. Michael Antony, ...