Language learning is big business. A year ago, capitalizing on the aspirations of people, with an economic motivation, to learn English, Anuradha Agarwal founded Multibhashi. It’s an online language-learning platform that help people learn English through major Indian languages such as Hindi, Bangla, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. In a country of so many varied languages -- 20 official languages, English, the only linguistic commonality, is increasingly becoming the de facto mother tongue in urban families. Another startup inspired by India’s English language demand is Google-backed Duolingo, which has seen a huge increase in active users after introducing an option last year to learn English from Hindi.

Source: Forbes November 13, 2017 05:21 UTC