WHEN the sun peeped out from behind the horizon on August 14, 1947, much to its surprise it was an altogether different landscape in the subcontinent, not only politically but also literarily and ...

Google Handwriting Input has been the savior of the keyboard-remedial since its inception. It got its own stand-alone app earlier this year, but since then, we haven’t seen much action on the Google ...

HOW intriguing that at a time when English, with its status as a global language, is swaying South Asian literary minds, one seasoned English fiction writer settled in London has taken a jump in the ...

Google has updated its Handwriting Input app to include five new languages. Now, customers who speak Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Hebrew and Burmese will be able to scribble words on to the input pad, ...

DPS-Modern Indian School (DPS-MIS) recently conducted the intra-school Arabic and Urdu handwriting competition and the Holy Qur’an recitation competition for students of Class-I to VIII, with an aim ...

CHENNAI, India --The fax machine on 76-year-old Editor-in-Chief Syed Fazlulla's crowded desk is by far the most sophisticated technology in the room. It whizzes and burps forth a stream of scribbled ...

Letters are now a nostalgic pastime. The “art of letter writing”, we call it wistfully, mostly because we detest the brief, auto-prompt sentences we write today. Poet Agha Shahid Ali, in his poem ...

In 1857, Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, better known by his last name, sought refuge in the art of letter-writing to express the pain and sorrow he had witnessed during the first War of Independence. A ...

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