Passing by Class 1, you can hear Prashant Kumar explaining Urdu numerals to his classmates. The teachers on either side of the linguistic divide find much in common between Sanskrit and Urdu—both ...

Most of us have seen Roman numerals before. Some of us even remember what they mean. But this quiz isn’t just about reading them. You’ll get a mix of questions—some will ask you to convert ...

PREMIUM The bias against Urdu showed its face during the framing of a Constitution for independent India, but the noble architects of that wonderful charter of governance adopted in 1950 did their ...

Urdu is among the 15 Indian Languages written on the Indian ... official language of the Union shall be Hindi in Devanagari script”, and “The form of numerals to be used for the official purposes of ...

The court upheld the use of Urdu, alongside Marathi, on a signboard in Maharashtra, dismissing the misconception that Urdu is foreign to India. It cautioned against associating language with ...

The Supreme Court on April 15 upheld the continued use of Urdu on a municipal signboard in Patur Municipal Council in Maharashtra’s Akola district. The legal question before it Mrs Varshatai vs ...

The Supreme Court rejected a plea by former councillor of Patur town, challenging the use of Urdu on the signboard of the municipal council of Patur. The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the use of ...

Language is not religion and to consider Urdu as a language of Muslims is a "pitiable digression" from reality and unity in diversity, the Supreme Court has said while rejecting a petition ...

The Supreme Court has said it is a “pitiable digression from reality” to believe that Hindi is the language of the Hindus and Urdu of the Muslims. A language is only a means of communication ...

The recently celebrated World Hindi Diwas, on 10 January, provides an immediate context to revisit the historical processes by which Hindi and Urdu were (are) imagined, identified and understood from ...

The use of Roman numerals in the event's name is a tradition that dates back more than fifty years. It serves both practical and aesthetic purposes. It began in 1971 when the Baltimore Ravens ...

Super Bowl week is back, which means Roman numerals are once again at the forefront of the public consciousness. As one of the only institutions that still uses Roman numerals, the NFL's choice ...