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Madras HC disposes plea against classical status to non-Tamil languages

On: August 9, 2016

The Madras high court declined on Monday to interfere with the grant of classical status to languages other than Tamil by the central government. The court was disposing of petitions challenging the grant of classical status to Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Odiya and norms governing such conferment. The first benchContinue Reading

Malayalam gets global push, new status in Germany

By: Matters India

On: August 18, 2015

In: Indians Abroad

Malayalam is set to get its first big global push. In October, the University of Tubingen in Germany will be setting up a chair dedicated to the teaching of and research in Malayalam. It is being named after Hermann Gundert, a missionary scholar who lived and worked in Tellichery inContinue Reading