‘Academy’, as many of us know, is a word that comes from the French word ‘academie’, evolving from Latin ‘academia’ the ultimate ancestor of both being Greek ‘akademeia’.
South Asia is one of the most intensely multilingual regions in the world. It covers over 5 million square kilometres, has a population of approximately 1.9 billion (around 25% of the world’s population), and is home to five families of languages (the Indo-European, Iranian, Dravidian, Austro-Asiatic or Munda, and Tibeto-Burman).