Do India’s 1.3 billion people need English? Not according to Vice President Venkaiah Naidu. At an event last week in New Delhi to mark “Hindi day,” Mr. Naidu called English “a disease left behind by ...

I remember walking down a busy street in Delhi during my first stay in India and noting the different ways in which the same words were written in Latin script. Lakshmi here, Luxmi there. Since then I ...

When the Twitter hashtag #IndianEnglish began trending late last month, the resulting flood of tweets from Indians sharing humorous examples of their country's unique spin on the English language was ...