A book like this is a thought experiment . . . It wonders about the future, a time when I myself will be gone.
Language has shaped Peggy Mohan’s thinking for most of her life. Language also lies at the heart of India’s greatest questions about identity, community and the future. Language can unite us, but it can also divide us, trapping people in isolated worlds and limiting opportunity.
Yet India stands at a rare moment of possibility.
New technologies are making it possible to bridge linguistic divides without erasing the country’s astonishing diversity. Instead of forcing us into a single language, they can help us speak across languages while preserving our own. What if India’s many languages could become not a source of division, but of connection? Blending history, linguistics and a bold vision of what’s possible,
Framing the Future shows how India can build a future that is more connected, more confident and unmistakably its own.
Born in Trinidad, West Indies, Peggy Mohan studied linguistics at the University of the West Indies and pursued a PhD in the same from the University of Michigan. She has taught linguistics at Howard University, Washington D.C., Jawaharlal Nehru University and Ashoka University, and mass communications at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. She is the author of Wanderers, Kings, Merchants (2021), which won the Mathrubhumi Book of the Year Award and Father Tongue, Motherland (2025) which won the Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Award for Non-Fiction at the Banaras Literature Festival. Peggy has dabbled in cartoon animation, produced a television series in Hindi for children and taught music. She lives in New Delhi.
Imprint: India Allen Lane | Published: Sep/2026
Length: 224 Pages | MRP: ₹699.00
