THIS work, now completed, contains, as the publishers inform us, about as much printed matter as twelve volumes of the “Dictionary of National Biography.” They have also published a thin-paper edition ...

Kazzazi explained that his companion Saeid Sabzian selected and compiled English literary words and found the best Persian synonyms for them, the Persian service of ISNA reported. “I was then ...

IT is surprising that how in our society some not-too-well-known persons not associated with any university or literary organisation can do some wonderful research work despite little or no ...

IT is quite strange that very little is known about S. W. Fallon (1817-1880) though he was a fine lexicographer who compiled some of the earliest of Urdu-English dictionaries. Fallon’s ‘A new ...

Chekhov once wrote that you need to be a god to distinguish success from failure in life without making a mistake. While none of the 52 writers in C.D. Rose’s invaluable book is a household name, to ...