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Restrictions on language unfair to identity of a nation Speakers tell event marking Int’l Mother Language Day Diplomatic Correspondent Diplomatic Correspondent International Mother Language Day is a source of inspiration to build multicultural and inclusive societies where people of all races, faiths, languages and cultures will have respect and dignity, said ministers and academics said yesterday. They said oftentimes some languages are imposed on people for political or economic reasons, which, however, is unfair to the very identity of those be...

New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2019; pp xx + 295, ₹ 895. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019; pp xxiv + 577, price not indicated. Asia’s Journey to Prosperity: Policy, Market, and Technology Over 50 Years by Asian Development Bank,  Manila: ADB, 2020 (ebook), http://dx.doi.org/10.22617/TCS190290.   The transformation of Asia from its status as the most impoverished region to the growth locomotive of the world economy within five decades is unprecedented and nothing short of a miracle. The achievement seems all the more profound when juxtaposed with a very pessimistic outlook o...