Students take German classes at recruitment company TERN Group's Yelahanka Language Institute in Bengaluru on Sept. 29. The lure of jobs with better pay and conditions than in India is encouraging Indians to pick up language skills for work in the European Union. (Photo by Selvaprakash Lakshmanan)Big in AsiaRecruits scale language barriers to chase jobs, but anti-migrant clouds gather in EuropeSAYAN CHAKRABORTYOctober 3, 2026 06:00 JSTBENGALURU -- Siddaling Pujari says that his family in the hinterlands of southern India now marvels when he calls home to show off his command of a language he didn't speak until a few months ago -- German. Read NextLatest on Big in Asia