{"id":5256,"date":"2026-08-16T14:31:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T14:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ling.news\/?p=5256"},"modified":"2026-08-16T14:31:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T14:31:06","slug":"english-in-india-a-language-that-has-earned-its-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling.news\/?p=5256","title":{"rendered":"English in India, a language that has earned its place"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/lead\/english-in-india-a-language-that-has-earned-its-place\/article71329291.ece\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"English in India, a language that has earned its place\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/th-i.thgim.com\/public\/opinion\/op-ed\/40w6q\/article71329385.ece\/alternates\/LANDSCAPE_1200\/iStock-1694966206.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">www.thehindu.com<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">English in India, a language that has earned its place<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">English may not be an indigenous language in the same historical sense as Sanskrit or Tamil, yet, over two centuries, has acquired a legitimate claim to belong to India<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-5256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultura","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5257,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5256\/revisions\/5257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}