I have come to know two important scholars, and each of them had 500 words to compare two languages. The first one was Prof. A. Sathasivam, about whom Prof. T. Burrow of the Oriental Institute of the ...

Last week, veteran actor Kamal Haasan courted controversy by declaring that “Kannada was born out of Tamil.” The question of which Indian language is oldest—and, by extension, most native to the ...