If Machiavelli wrote The Prince in present-day Pakistan, an additional chapter in the book would be titled: Learn local languages before leading your party. To groom the party’s current chairperson, ...

FOR decades, I faced a dilemma. Living in Sindh, I wanted to learn the Sindhi language to enable myself to speak to the people here in their own language. They had welcomed my parents and me when we ...

Language is a fundamental source of communication, sharing of views, thoughts, love, knowledge and experiences. Therefore, computational linguistics is a significant source to enable the machine to ...

THE importance of learning a local or regional language cannot be overstated. It not only expands job opportunities, but also helps communicate effectively and build strong bonds with the locals. At ...

A language which is spoken by the majority in a particular state, with a change of geographical locations becomes the language of minority. Say, for the Sindhi people who have migrated to Tamil Nadu, ...

After my session at the Jaipur Literature Festival on January 21, 2023, I sat in the author-signing hutch, and one of my visitors was a young woman who had grown up in the US. She shared with me her ...

"Haath Na Lagaye" ("Don't Touch Me"), a Sindhi film released last month, articulates the collective dilemma of a community which lost more than a geographical area many summers ago. Satyanand is a ...

KHAIRPUR MIRS: The Sindhi language is one of the oldest languages of the subcontinent. According to Shamsul Ulema Daudpota, it descended from the Virachada dialect of Prakrit. In the early stages, it ...

THE importance of learning a local or regional language cannot be overstated. It not only expands job opportunities, but also helps communicate effectively and build strong bonds with the locals. At ...