Anwar Jamal is a veteran poet, critic, and educationist from Multan. His latest book ‘Dhoop Ki Cha’oN’ (The Sun Shade), is a ...

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New York’s new mayor challenged his supporters and his opponents to make the city better, and to hold him to account.

Abstract: Tesseract engine supports multilingual text recognition. However, the recognition of cursive scripts using Tesseract is a challenging task. In this paper, Tesseract engine is analyzed and ...

Urdu scholar and translator Rakshanda Jalil’s new collection Whose Urdu is it Anyway? is linked by one theme: to challenge the notion that Urdu is the language of Muslim writers alone, especially in a ...

Hyderabad: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath sparked controversy by claiming the Samajwadi Party wants to "teach Urdu and make people maulvis." Such remarks oversimplify Urdu’s role in ...

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 ...

Court said our biases against a language must be honestly tested against the reality of India’s rich diversity. “Our strength can never be our weakness. Let us make friends with Urdu and every ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the use of Urdu on the signboard of a municipal council building in Akola district, Maharashtra, stating that “language belongs to a community, to a region, to ...