Vernacular languages
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Culture
On Language wars and the rise of the Vernacular in history
The author traces today’s Indian language wars to the rise of the vernaculars after about 1000 CE, when Sanskrit held literary prestige, comparing it with Latin’s dominance in Europe, and…
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Pakistan: Litfests and Bookfairs – Two Worlds? by Ajmal Kamal
Ajmal Kamal argues that Karachi’s Literature Festival and its International Book Fair look past each other, the first favouring English-language writing, the second dominated by Urdu books of a religious-sectarian…
