2 books released at Sirsa varsity

Two new books on the Bharatiya Bhasha Samiti were released at a two-day “Bharatiya Bhasha Parivar Sammelan” hosted by the faculty of humanities at Chaudhary Devi Lal University (CDLU), the university said on Tuesday.

The books — Collected Studies on Bharatiya Bhasha Samiti: Perspectives and Horizons and Bharatiya Bhasha Samiti: A New Framework in Linguistics — were edited by the Indian Languages Committee under the Union Ministry of Education and published by the National Book Trust, India, in 2025.CDLU Vice-Chancellor Prof Vijay Kumar, educationist and Itihas Sankalan Committee state executive president Ram Singh Yadav, Registrar Dr Sunil Kumar, Prof Umed Singh and Prof Anu Shukla jointly unveiled the volumes. Scholars, researchers and language experts attended the event in large numbers on the university campus. Anu Shukla gave a brief overview of the two books. She said the first volume, Collected Studies on Bharatiya Bhasha Samiti: Perspectives and Horizons, strengthens the idea of viewing Indian languages as an interconnected family. The book draws on multidisciplinary research, including linguistics, anthropology, cognitive science, pedagogy and artificial intelligence. It advocates mother tongue-based education and linguistic unity. She said the second book, Bharatiya Bhasha Samiti: A New Framework in Linguistics, critiques colonial and western language models.