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 ...

WHAT do they call a computer mouse in Urdu? ‘Chooha’? Definitely not, as ‘chooha’ literally means ‘rat’ in Urdu and it would sound funny in technical context. A computer mouse is simply ‘mouse’ in ...

Pakistan is dropping English as its official language and switching to Urdu, a popular language in the Indian subcontinent. The long-rumored change was confirmed by Pakistani Minister of Planning, ...

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 ...