Munawwar Rana often lamented how division had seeped into the most ordinary spaces of life. Courtesy, respect, and shared ...

I’d said to myself: Why don’t I do my own Bhartiya-karan, that is, Indianise myself, before someone else thinks of doing it? The first problem was my name. Perhaps you don’t know: my name is Iqbal ...

Indian Literature, Sahitya Akademi’s bimonthly journal, is India’s oldest and the only journal of its kind featuring translations in English of poetry, fiction, drama and criticism from twenty-three ...

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JAIPUR: The Rajasthan government has directed the state police department to remove all Urdu and Persian words in official documents and replace them with Hindi. In a letter to the Director General of ...

The Rajasthan Education Department has formed a three-member committee to probe the farewell programme at Mahatma Gandhi Government School of Baran's Shahabad area. Rajasthan has recently dropped Urdu ...

She currently flirts only with people who are not her type, or with whom the connection has an inbuilt boundary or an evanescent quality, e.g.: – Hotshot ah beng durian-seller with a neck tattoo that ...

The state police headquarters started the exercise following a letter by Minister of State (Home) Jawahar Singh Bedham, seeking information about such words and their Hindi alternatives Mukadma (case) ...

Wish to name your little girl with a beautiful and rare name? Here are 9 Urdu words with wonderful meanings. Jhelum is a river situated in Kashmir valley. The word is derived from the words Jal (pure ...

I cannot tell you how many times I've received a PDF document with the expectation that I'm going to either use the text to create something new or to edit the copy. That's all fine and good when I'm ...