Indian Diaspora: Keeping Language and Culture Alive Abroad

Culture Across Borders: How Indian Communities Keep Traditions A child growing up in Leicester may learn Bharatanatyam in a studio after school. A family in western Sydney may organise its calendar around a Tamil temple festival. In Southall, a young Sikh student may spend part of the weekend learning to read Gurmukhi.

These are not simply cultural activities placed on top of everyday life. They are ways of passing knowledge from one generation to the next—often in countries where the language of school, work and friendship is not the language of grandparents. For Indian-origin communities…