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Bahu Bhasa 2025 - Day 1, Session 1

Bahu Bhasa is not only a celebration of Indian languages, but asking the hard questions and identifying what we are doing wrong.” This is how conversations began on Day 1 of Bahu Bhasa 2025 - hosted by Open Knowledge Initiatives (OKI), and Language Technologies Research Centre (LTRC) at IIIT Hyderabad. In the opening remarks on Day 1, Prof. Deva Priyakumar (Dean, R&D, IIIT Hyderabad) urged researchers to move beyond academic publications to develop tools that solve real-world communication challenges. Prof. Vasudeva Varma, Head, LTRC described a “silent crisis of storytelling,” urging that India must make its linguistic heritage open, lest others define it for us. In the keynote, author and educationist Vadrevu Chinaveerabhadrudu called for transforming education into a collaborative, open system of knowledge creation. Panels and workshops delved into language policy gaps, civic technologies for safer online spaces, and community-driven approaches for low-resource languages. The day closed with the release of Ho-language works by Adivasi Ho Samaj Mahasabha and a fireside chat with Prof. P. Sainath and Prof. Dipti Misra Sharma on the future of language activism.