India is home to more than 121 languages and 270 mother tongues. Hindi and English are the official languages of the Union, while the Eighth Schedule of the Constitution lists 22 Scheduled Languages ...
A relatively small Windows EXE file does the hard work of actually shaping from a word-list and a font. It produces a diff.wsc.txt output file that has the words and the glyph output data for each ...
Well, what a night that was. Not just because the Green Party won our first ever parliamentary by-election in Gorton and Denton. Not just because we overturned a once rock-solid Labour majority of ...
China rang in the Lunar New Year with nationwide festivities and a running high-tech message. What do people in China make of a future steered by the government — in which AI-powered robots take ...
Pakistan's own Urdu ChatGPT, "Qalb", has officially been launched, marking a historic milestone in the country's digital journey. Developed under the leadership of Taimoor Hassan, a Pakistani student ...
Zohran Mamdani is officially the mayor of New York City, just weeks after his historic victory, making him the first Muslim leader of the Big Apple. He took the oath in a historic, decommissioned ...
Once the lingua franca of North India, spoken in marketplaces, courts, and homes across caste and creed, Urdu today is too often boxed into a single identity — the language of Indian Muslims. But ...
The once-thriving world of Urdu-language media in India is today a shadow of its former self. From icons like Qaumi Awaaz and Roznama Rashtriya Sahara to lesser-known weeklies, many publications that ...
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 ...
Viral posts on social media have claimed India triggered a flood in Pakistan by withholding, then releasing, large amounts of water from a dam, causing flooding. A sudden surge in water levels of ...
In a time when language is increasingly being used as a proxy for identity, and identity as a tool for exclusion, the Supreme Court’s judgment in Mrs. Varshatai v. State of Maharashtra is a resounding ...
The top court described Urdu as the finest example of 'Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb' and criticised prejudice against languages, calling such bias a "threat to India's cultural strength". The Supreme Court on ...