Before I enlist the words that English has borrowed from Persian, I would like to share with you some musings on borrowings and the words English has borrowed, which Robert Claiborne has penned in his ...

The etymology of Persian words is not always very familiar to the public. In contrast, the roots of words in other languages, such as Arabic and English, are more accessible. For example, it is easy ...

During a prolific 200-year period in the 14th–16th centuries, four master calligraphers invented one of the most aesthetically refined forms of Persian culture: nasta‘liq, a type of calligraphy so ...

As government functioning are becoming more and more transparent the world over especially among democracies, it will always be in mutual interests of the citizen and the state to become more ...

On December 11, 2019, the Delhi High Court issued a ruling in a public interest litigation asking that the Delhi Police be stopped from using difficult Persian and Urdu words in their first ...

If you find police procedures perplexing, take some time and read police documents. You will need a Persian/Urdu scholar to unlock the mystery of an FIR that is often full of words like musna, zaabta ...