In English, ‘buggy’ means ‘a small car, often without roof or doors, used for a particular purpose’, says Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. We have heard of garden buggy, golf buggy and beach ...

IN one of my columns in an Urdu-language daily, I mentioned a book 'Sarguzasht-i-Alfaaz'. Written by Ahmed Din (1866-1929), the book, probably the first of its kind in Urdu, discussed the origins of ...

KARACHI: Urdu’s first online thesaurus was recently launched and in no time it has attracted the attention of many who are usually at a loss for words while communicating in the language they hold so ...

Mumbai: If you are born in India, and that means any part of India, Urdu is the language that you must have come across in its purest or hybrid form. The language is even liked by the Oxford English ...

Every time Dr Tariq Rahman writes about language he opens up new discussions and forces us to focus on the various languages we speak in Pakistan. Whether we like it or not, he is the only serious ...

DEHRADUN: The Uttarakhand Police has revised and published a 700-page police training manual replacing nearly 1,100 specific Urdu words in use for nearly 150 years with Hindi words for cases ...

Dinanath Batra of RSS is upset that despite his multiple successes and work as a Hindu pedagogue, NCERT has not yet changed its Hindi textbooks. NEW DELHI: Dinanath Batra of RSS is upset that despite ...

Gulzar, the recipient of the Jnanpith Award, expresses optimism about the future of Urdu. He believes that despite the decline of the Urdu script, the language itself is alive and thriving, with Urdu ...