What happens to a language when its land and people are partitioned? By Rita Kothari In the summer of 2014 a panel discussion titled “Partitioned Voices, Divided Tongues?” held in Delhi, invited the panelists to think of “What happens to a language when its land and people are partitioned?” In the organizers’ scheme of things, […]
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Language policy is considered source of influence and supremacy. It is also foundation of power of media, administration, commerce, education and other sectors. By Shoukat Lohar Indigenous languages have been ignored and behaved like step daughter since independence in Pakistan. Language policies either support English or Urdu. It is mentioned in constitution 1973 that respective […]
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Language policy is considered source of influence and supremacy. It is also foundation of power of media, administration, commerce, education and other sectors. By Shoukat Lohar Pakistan is a land of multilingual languages. There are about 57 indigenous languages in Pakistan. However the state has always been supportive to either English or Urdu. Local languages […]
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Dhirendranath Dutta rose in the Pakistan Constituent Assembly on 25 February 1948 in defence of Bangla. He was shouted down by Liaquat Ali Khan. By Syed Badrul Ahsan Dhirendranath Dutta rose in the Pakistan Constituent Assembly on 25 February 1948 in defence of Bangla. He was shouted down by Liaquat Ali Khan. On 21 March […]
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The book ‘Urdu Ishtiharyat Ki Tareekh’, or ‘The History of Urdu Advertising’ encapsulates an over 250-year history of Urdu advertising in the sub-continent Karachi: The book ‘Urdu Ishtiharyat Ki Tareekh’ by Dr. Pirzada Sharf-e-Alam has recently been launched. The book is based on the doctoral thesis of Dr. Sharf-e-Alam, who completed his research work under […]
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The mother languages, which are organic treasures for other languages are highly ignored due to centralization, instrumentalization and monolingualism of the world A child’s mother language is its intelligence that describes its way of thinking, reasoning, understanding and doing all the tasks. By Shoukat Lohar The mother languages day is celebrated throughout the world on […]
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