NEW DELHI, (IANS) – The chronicler of Delhi, Swapna Liddle, has come out with a new book that, in the words of William Dalrymple, “finally supersedes Percival Spear’s classic, ‘Twilight of the Mughals ...

It was on May 30, 1826, during the colonial period, when Calcutta witnessed the birth of a newspaper that would leave an indelible mark on the world and on Indian journalism. Udant Martand, meaning ...

Sudha Pai in 2002 stated, “If a language is not characterised by political neutrality, it too often becomes the tool by which this language group seeks to extend its domination over the minority ...

(Relevance: Urdu is part of the rich Indian culture. The recent Supreme Court judgment has reaffirmed that Urdu is not alien to India. In this reference, knowing about the history of the Urdu language ...

The Supreme Court has said it is a “pitiable digression from reality” to believe that Hindi is the language of the Hindus and Urdu of the Muslims. A language is only a means of communication and does ...

Old Delhi is a place of love, culture, traditions, and history; however, while exploring the old Delhi, any navigation app can locate the bustling Chandni Chowk, which showcases the comeback of the ...

Zeerak Ahmed has spent years in the U.S., working for some of the world’s biggest tech companies. But one thing he has grown frustrated with is how “computing treats non-Latin languages as second ...

Travel inspires comparison, often revealing as much about the places we come from as the places we visit. This was certainly the case for late 19th-and early 20th-century Indian travellers in Europe, ...

LUCKNOW : It is a hot summer evening and customers wait their turn at the local barber’s shop in a prominent Muslim neighbourhood of the historic city of old Lucknow. A middle-aged man, who was going ...

Lucknow, June 1 It is a hot summer evening and customers wait their turn at the local barber's shop in a prominent Muslim neighbourhood of old Lucknow. A middle-aged man, who had been going through an ...

Lucknow: It is a hot summer evening and customers wait their turn at the local barber's shop in a prominent Muslim neighbourhood of old Lucknow. A middle-aged man, who had been going through an Urdu ...