Source: mirror.co.uk
The last member of a 65,000-year-old tribe has passed away – and with her the ancient Bo language.
Boa Sr was the only surviving descendant of the Bo people, who inhabited the remote Andaman Islands off the east coast of India.
She died last week aged 83 after living through British rule, Second World War Japanese [...]

Source: in.news.yahoo.com
In a major initiative, 50 rare work of English, Persian and Sanskrit would be translated into Gojri. “Fifty rare works of English, Persian and Sanskrit are chosen to be rendered into Gojri in order to widen the access to classic and modern languages,” Dr Javaid Rahi a senior functionary of Jammu and Kashmir Academy [...]

Source: IANS
Contemporary Santhali literature has taken off in a big way since it became an official language of Jharkhand in 2003, but it has not come of age because the government has not added it to the list of official Indian languages, says a pioneer of the Santhali book trade.
“Contemporary tribal literature does not [...]

Source: The Hindu
C.S. Yogananda, Professor and Head of the Department of Mathematics at the Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering has digitalised Saakshi – a quarterly literary magazine brought out by Kannada’s finest poets, the pioneer of the modernist movement, Gopalakrishna Adiga for nearly 25 years.
The digital version of this magazine which launched many new Kannada writers [...]

Source: Hindustan Times
India has earned the dubious distinction of having the largest number of languages in danger of extinction. For instance, only 31 people in south Andaman Island speak Jarawa, while just 138 people in Himachal speak Handuri.
According to the UNESCO Atlas of World’s Languages in Danger, released in February, more than 2.5 crore Indians [...]

Source: The Hindu
The once flourishing publishing business of Cuttack city, called the Banipeetha of Orissa, is now staring at a bleak future. Not very long ago there were more than 500 publishers doing good business here. Now they have dwindled to a handful.
Ever since the first publishing house in the State – Orissa Mission Press [...]

Source: Sanjukta Sharma (Mint)
The oldest outlet of the Majestic Book Depot – as old as the Quit India Movement – hasn’t changed much with the passage of time. Since July 1942, this little bookstore in Girgaum Naka, a bustling traditional precinct in south Mumbai, has catered to the city’s Marathi bibliophiles. It began life as a [...]

Source:  Times of India
Telugu may have attained classical language status, but very few people will get to read any of its literary texts, if current translation trends continue. At present, translation of Telugu literary works is taken up sporadically, and that too only into English and not Indian vernacular languages.
In view of the recently accorded [...]