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COLUMN: LITERARY & SPOKEN LANGUAGE

On a recent visit to Iran, I was shocked at how little I could understand of spoken Persian. I could read and comprehend fluently but was struck dumb...

31.03.2024 10

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COLUMN: THE POETRY OF LOVE

This past year I designed an undergraduate course that I called ‘The Poetry of Love’. One of the challenges of the course was how to define...

28.01.2024 60

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COLUMN: FLOWERS IN A MIRROR

The great 19th century Urdu and Farsi poet Ghalib was a master in creating neologisms. He excelled in pushing language to its ultimate possibilities....

26.11.2023 10

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