The man who 'discovered' 780 Indian languages - BBC NewsGanesh Devy undertook 300 journeys in 18 months to explore India's languages When Ganesh Devy, a former professor of English, embarked on a search for India's languages, he expected to walk into a graveyard, littered with dead and dying mother tongues. Instead, he says, he walked into a "dense forest of voices", a noisy Tower of Babel in one of the world's most populous nations. He discovered that
