In a time where the adage ‘there are no free dinners’ is a social norm and not an academic concept, anything that comes for free is a welcome change. So when Ali Mozaffar Jafry and Azad Qalamdar, two ...

“What is another word for 'synonym'?” somebody asked me the other day. “What is the abbreviation of 'abbreviation'?” I retorted. We laughed it off. But abbreviations are no laughing matter.

Have you noticed that when we speak English with our families and friends, it often sounds like a direct translation of Urdu, and yet everyone understands perfectly. It is quite different from when we ...