The latest linguistic trend in Nepal seems to be that "if you speak English, you will conquer the world" — which spells bad news for our mother tongue. I remember not so long ago being approached by ...

Third grade students take turns reading lessons aloud to their classmates at Mangal Prasad Secondary School in Banke, Nepal. Credit: Amrita Jaisi for Global Press Journal Nepal. The Hechinger Report ...

An excerpt of a conversation between an anthropologist and linguist Mark Turin, PhD and Lava Deo Awasthi, PhD, the first Chairperson of the Language Commission of Nepal. Nepali Times: What is the role ...

Nepal, Dec. 17 -- Many public schools, formerly called Nepali medium schools, have started conducting classes in English medium as well. Though it has helped those schools to increase or retain ...