“What is another word for 'synonym'?” somebody asked me the other day. “What is the abbreviation of 'abbreviation'?” I retorted. We laughed it off. But abbreviations are no laughing matter.

THE colonial heritage handed down to us includes the expressive, practical, lovely and funny language called English. But during the British Raj, the indigenous people of the Indo-Pak subcontinent ...

Bilingualism, in many cases even multilingualism, being a special quality of most Indians, it comes as no surprise that many scholars working in various English Departments of Indian universities and ...

Pakistan in the month of June 2015, announced to replace English with Urdu as an official language. On May 14, 2015 the cabinet decided that Urdu would be the official language as per Article 251 of ...

In a new Translating India series, ten noted translators will share their experiences of translating from their respective languages. In this first part, Urdu critic and writer, Shamsur Rahman Faruqi ...

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) remarked that Urdu had been declared as the language of subordinate courts since 2015 but the same has not been implemented in Punjab till now. The court said the ...