When July Selina from Kozhikode married into an Anglo-Indian family in 1999, she adopted her in-laws’ German surname and ...

At the bustling Safeway under bright fluorescent lights, the constant beeps of self-checkout machines fill the air as ...

Macaulay’s intervention led to a colonial mentality in several sections of India. But because of English language, it also led to a lot of unintended consequences.

Sharjah-based Jordanian poet and writer Yousef Abou Louz’s book of poetry “Salt Wife,” which has been translated into the ...

Malala — Meaning "grief-stricken" or "sad" in Arabic, this is the name of activist Malala Yousafzai, who fights for female ...

Far from mere bookstores, these outlets merge libraries, coffee lounges and cocktail bars into a one-stop-shop for ...

Jim Potts is a poet, writer and filmmaker who was head of the British Council in Prague from 1986 to 1989. On a recent visit to Prague he shared his memories of the time.

Roman Urdu is when Urdu stops wearing its elegant Nastaliq attire and slips into casual English jeans. Instead of “آنا,” we ...

Before 2009, when the TV series "A French Village" ("Un village français") began, a mythology persisted among ordinary people ...

William Logan on recently published poetry by Rosanna Warren, Moya Cannon, John Koethe, Rebecca Watts, Henri Cole & Wendy ...

In ‘The Winter Warriors,’ French writer Olivier Norek narrates the 1939-40 confrontation between the two countries ...

Banter, buskers, and the Barras; single ends and smirry rain; the clockwork orange and that famous traffic cone ...