An Islamabad-based corporate lawyer Syed Mohammad Anwer has been fusing Urdu and Hindi calligraphy together beautifully and has encased the unique form in a coffee table called ‘Samrup Rachna: Apni ...

India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is proposing declaring Devanagari (Hindi script) the official script for regional languages, including Kashmiri - the mother tongue of a large population in ...

He was a schoolboy in the summer of 1976, keen on playing in the scorching heat of Rawalpindi. But his mother wanted him to remain indoors, so she taught him to write Hindi in the Devanagari script.

In 2010, when celebrated Hindi writer and playwright, Asghar Wajahat wrote a polemical article in Jansatta, “Lipi ka sawal: Yeh dil mange more” (Question of script: The heart desires more) suggesting ...

Veteran lyricist-writer Javed Akhtar writes Hindi dialogues in the Roman script for new actors who cannot read anything else. He believes that language belongs to a region and has nothing to do with ...

Recently, the Indian news site Scroll.in had an interesting debate on the relative merits of writing the Hindi language in the Roman alphabet instead of the native Devanagari script, triggered by a ...

Let’s first make it clear that “language” and “script” are two different things. “Language” is a verbal system of communication. A “script” is simply the collection of symbols used to represent that ...

Chetan Bhagat is a bestselling author and a popular newspaper columnist. One of the perpetual debates in our society is the importance of Hindi versus English. At a broader level, it can be extended ...