Posts Tagged ‘ urdu ’

Is it Urdu?

Aug 7th, 2012 | By | Category: Latest, Pakistan
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A couple of days back I was walking back to home from my workplace when I overheard two students talking to each other…“Itni Tension horahi hai, kal assignment submit kerna hai aur test b hai.” Being a linguist, I was compelled to observe the switching of language by the students and therefore it made me […]



The Complexity of inferiority

Jul 5th, 2011 | By | Category: Social
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When I was eight years old, my family returned to Pakistan from the United States and a lot of  things in the world suddenly changed for me. I remember (and my relatives won’t ever let me forget) that one of my very first statements was, “Why is everything broken?”. I’m pretty sure, I meant to […]