WHAT do they call a computer mouse in Urdu? ‘Chooha’? Definitely not, as ‘chooha’ literally means ‘rat’ in Urdu and it would sound funny in technical context. A computer mouse is simply ‘mouse’ in ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Bilingualism, in many cases even multilingualism, being a special quality of most Indians, it comes as no surprise that many scholars working in various English Departments of Indian universities and ...

THE colonial heritage handed down to us includes the expressive, practical, lovely and funny language called English. But during the British Raj, the indigenous people of the Indo-Pak subcontinent ...

Pakistanis like me blog and tweet in English because that is our comfort zone. Pakistani private schools, many of which were legacy British colonial institutions (or pretend to be) had a bias for ...