“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The Supreme Court order, even if implemented, will not really change the power equation nor will it remove the linguistic privilege of the haves over the have-nots The Chief Justice of Pakistan, ...

THE Punjab government recently announced that, come March 2020, the medium of teaching at government primary schools will switch from English to Urdu, reversing a system introduced by the Shahbaz ...