The Power Of Urdu In Jammu And Kashmir. Representational PhotoBy Sadaket Ali MalikOn any street in Srinagar, voices flow in ...

The South African media landscape has been shaken by the passing of Zakia Ahmed Siddiqi, a beloved Lotus FM radio presenter ...

Roman Urdu is when Urdu stops wearing its elegant Nastaliq attire and slips into casual English jeans. Instead of “آنا,” we ...

Mamdani understood that voters don’t leave their languages behind when they migrate. They use them to make sense of work, community and politics. By speaking to them in those languages, he showed that ...

This article first appeared in Volume 54, Issue 3 of our print edition of Index on Censorship, titled Truth, trust and tricksters: Free expression in the age of AI, published on 30 September 2025.

In poems such as Nayā Shiwālā (new temple), he envisioned a spiritual India that transcended religious divides. Yet, after ...

Minister for Jal Shakti, Forest, Ecology & Environment and Tribal Affairs, Javed Ahmed Rana, inaugurated two-day Jammu ...

In the early afternoon of November 4, Jackson Heights was no more abuzz than it is on any other day. The wind whipped Arepa ...

Actor Ayesha Omar thanked her for the “treasures she left behind,” while model and actor Kiran Malik shared a story mourning ...

Exploring theories of language origin, phonetic foundations, and effective learning strategies for fluency Mohd Ishaq Shah How did language come into being? Linguists have cited various theories ...

Dr Arifa Syeda’s command of the spoken word made her one of Pakistan’s most luminous voices on language, history and humanism ...

DURING the reign of Mughal Emperor Akbar, “reading and knowing the Arabic language became a vice, fiqh, tafseer ...