Articles with tag: LANGUAGE
Relevance of English Studies in India
nilanshu agarwal Aug 20, 2007 interacts: 4The need of the hour is to decolonise our English Studies by judging English literary texts not by European critical tools, but by Indian critical theories.
Computer Literated: Writing Preliterated?
Junaid Sadiq Dec 13, 2006 interacts: 2What is the future of handwriting in a world when one in three children has a computer in the bedroom.
How Not to get Irritated with Hindi
V S Gopalakrishnan Nov 29, 2006 interacts: 49Hindi has conquered India despite the Hindi zealots. Thanks mainly to the six hundred odd Hindi movies of generally unspeakable quality that emanate from Bollywood every year.
Men of Letters
Burpinder Singh Aug 4, 2006 interacts: 28I used to think the three letter acronym (TLA) was a yuppie fixation. This opinion was reinforced by a cruel boss who for years mystified me by sending e-mails which read something like: “FYI & A. PFA your KPIs for rest of FY. YTD review dates T
American Ambivalence on National Language
Mohammad Gill Jun 24, 2006 interacts: 12The American nation consists of immigrants from diverse countries. For fear of imposing any specific language and the associated culture on the diversity of the American population, the question of a national language is left in limbo
Language of Power: How it is getting more exclusive
Rizwana Khan Oct 1, 2005 interacts: 119Cafes, restaurants, boutiques, designers, the media, in essence the whole socio-economic machinery identifies with the English-speaking world.
Why Teach a Language Properly?
Rizwana Khan Sep 1, 2005 interacts: 9It is easier to blame Urdu language for all the ails in every area of education in Pakistan. It fulfills our need for a scapegoat that can be blamed for the total break up of the education system.
Linguistic Elitism
Anniqua Rana Apr 1, 2005 interacts: 41From immigrants learning English to assimilate into the culture of the majority, to the millions of English speakers worldwide, who learn the language to compete in the world markets, the feeling toward the language is paradoxically both of resentment and
A Guide to the Street Language of Karachi
Syed Ali Mar 13, 2004 interacts: 80Profanity.....We wouldnt be the same without it.
The Karachi Airport Ayatollah
Haroon Moghul Sep 3, 2003 interacts: 35Pakistan will somehow and eventually explode the Earth
The Ghost of Urdu
Zafar Anjum Sep 1, 2003 interacts: 29The truth is today’s market of languages, Urdu is a loser. People would rather learn French and Chinese and what not, guided by their economic needs. One must understand that cultural changes and economic changes are inter-linked.
The Blackboards
Jagmohan Chadha Jul 3, 2003 interacts: 14Here is a bit of advice from some body who knows. Never be the middle child in the family if you can help it. Especially if your older sibling is the perfect son/daughter.
I’m With Stupid
Haroon Moghul Jul 3, 2003 interacts: 6thought to myself, as I searched for the right kind of chocolate fudge cake, that I was now living in an ascendant empire, the most powerful country on earth and perhaps in all of human history. An empire!
Do it like the Dutchies Do
Raheel Khan Jun 15, 2003 interacts: 19In this country you need a doctor’s prescription to buy tablets of paracetamol with codeine. However if you walk into any coffee shop in Amsterdam you can easily legally buy Marijuana!!!!
As the Bald Eagle Tries to Rule
Veeresh Malik Mar 21, 2003 interacts: 127I knew some guys who hitch-hiked this route.
The New Jews
Bina Shah Mar 8, 2003 interacts: 173In this world, where Muslims are the new Jews, where Pakistanis are terrorists, visa cheaters and total bastards, What am I?
Life with Wife
Nazar Khan Jan 22, 2003 interacts: 38The only mysteries left in each other's anatomy are perhaps lungs and liver.
Towards a Ramzaan Sunset
Rozaiba Nov 25, 2002 interacts: 53The world is getting ready to open the fast.
All The Way To Maine
Dilip DSouza Sep 12, 2002 interacts: 30How some Pakistani and Indian kids found out that the enemy has a face.
Action To Support Displaced Community in Gujrat
Ajay Raina Aug 22, 2002 interacts: 190I grow more certain day by day that we must start in Gujarat, what we did not do in Kashmir
DIL’s Caravan of Hope
Ras Siddiqui Jun 6, 2002 interacts: 36DIL has already changed the lives of over 8000 underprivileged children
Confessions of a BJP Supporter
Parag Vohra May 13, 2002 interacts: 275Why was the philosophy of the Sangh Parivar attractive to so many urban middle class Hindus?
From Across The Border
Irfan Muzaffar Mar 14, 2002 interacts: 65full of the likes of us who grow up in an ideology laden environments
When the Lights Hurt the Eyes
Farzana Versey Nov 14, 2001 interacts: 384Our superstitions are world-renowned. We feed the poor in designated months...
The Young Philosopher
Rehan Ansari Oct 27, 2000 interacts: 112who can resist a Pakistani philosopher
Tower of Babel
Shehlah Zahiruddin May 31, 2000 interacts: 12My language was peppered with baithtta hoon and khata hoon along with the elongation of almost all Urdu words with aan such as ainak-aan...
Mecca or Mohenjodaro?
RMS Azam May 6, 2000 interacts: 162A living religion is more eloquent than a dead civilization
Of Boylove and Boylovers
Sabia Ahmed Aug 31, 1999 interacts: 223We (even in the oh-so-liberal West) live in a more conformist society that we are led to believe
Corporate Battles
Jawahara Saidullah Mar 20, 1999 interacts: 7the seductive sweetness of ripe mangoes fresh from a tree
What is Pakistan to me?
Veeresh Malik Feb 23, 1999 interacts: 20What sort of people are these Pakistanis, anyway?
Growing up an American Muslim
Zehra Rizvi Feb 8, 1999 interacts: 139You’re related to Saddam aren’t ya?
A Pakistani Teenager in Canada
M H S Sep 1, 1998 interacts: 22A 14 year old Pakistani teenager gets some things off his chest
A Wedding with the Divine
Yousuf Saeed Jun 4, 1998 interacts: 1let us, oh Khusro, return home now, the dark dusk settles...
The Basanti Dye
Yousuf Saeed Feb 6, 1998 interacts: 12By four-o clock in the morning the whole sky became Basanti. It seemed as if mustard was flowering in the eyes of the sky….
The Good, the Bad and the Anxiety
Bad Girl Jan 27, 1998 interacts: 60Can’t we make choices about how to lead our lives without someone out there thinking that we are breaking a religious or cultural law? Who decides what these laws are anyway?
Massacre of a Language
Adil Najam Dec 26, 1997 interacts: 15Is this what the language of Mir, Ghalib and Faiz has been reduced to?
The ABCD of Melting Pots
Moe Chaudry Nov 12, 1997 interacts: 7We swallowed the melting pot myth of America hook, line, and sinker … we ate spaghetti, chicken fried rice, and hot dogs and believed that these culinary delights originated in places like Boston, Wichita, and Phoenix.
