The world has become a multi-lingual environment and therefore we should stop yearning for a controlled monolingual dream of the past and look towards a more diverse, vibrant and international future ...

Pakistan is a linguistically diverse country with around 74 languages. According to the 1973 Constitution, Urdu is the national language, while English is the official language of Pakistan. The ...

Most Pakistanis have been brought up speaking our national language Urdu and English. Instead of conversing in Urdu, many of us lapse into English during everyday conversation. Even people who do not ...

English on top, Urdu on the bottom— speaks louder than words. It demonstrates that English in Pakistan isn’t a foreign ...

Pakistan is in the process of adopting a Single National Curriculum (SNC), which means all schools—state-run “Urdu-medium” and the commercially run “English medium”—will now teach the same courses.

POSTCOLONIAL discourse is not anything new: back in 1978 with the publication of Edward Said’s book Orientalism ...

Bilingualism, in many cases even multilingualism, being a special quality of most Indians, it comes as no surprise that many scholars working in various English Departments of Indian universities and ...

It was decided in 1973 that a decade from then on, Urdu will be declared as the official language of Pakistan. However, this did not happen. It is worth mentioning that upon approval of the ...

“The two most beautiful words in the English language are 'Check enclosed',” wrote Dorothy Parker. But I do not agree with her. To a 'desi' like me, the most beautiful words in the English language ...