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Linguistics in the Media<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I strongly believe that, in addition to writing for specialized journals, scholars should also make their research accessible to a broader audience. I have contributed my scholarly views on sociolinguistic issues to many popular platforms. Many of them are based of my ongoing or completed research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Popular Articles<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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2026 (Sep 18). Bushra Bano\u2019s language is India\u2019s strength, her attackers\u2019 that of weakness<\/a>. Maktoob Media<\/em>. India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2026 (April 28) \u2018Broken Arabic\u2019 between Mockery and Commercialization’<\/a>. Language on the Move.<\/em> (with Salma Dhailia, and Mahla Almeraikhi)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024 (Aug 7). Semantic journeys: How some communities turned words used as slurs as an assertion of pride<\/a>. (with Manish Thakur). Scroll, India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024 (April 23). Sacred Font, Profane Purpose<\/a>. Language on the Move<\/em>. (with Yasser S Khan).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024 (January 16). Why Are Uzbek Youth Learning Arabic?<\/a> Language on the Move<\/em>. (with Mehrinigor Akhmedova, Bukhara State University, Uzbekistan).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023 (December 10). Is Arabic under threat on the Arabian peninsula?<\/a>. Language on the Move<\/em> (with Shaikha Al-Hemaidi)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022 (Nov 17). Qatar World Cup 2022: A global competition rooted in local Arab culture<\/a>. Middle East Eye<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022 (June 21). How Urdu scholar Gopi Chand Narang (1931-2022) advocated for the language as a \u2018civilisational gain<\/a>\u2019. Scroll.In<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022 (May 26).Inqilab in Court: What does Urdu word really mean<\/a>?. MaktoobIndia<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021 (October 31) Yeh Kafir cricket<\/em>: How sport is turned into Islamophobic weapon<\/a>. MaktoobIndia<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021 (April 11)\u00a0BJP\u2019s use of \u2018begum\u2019 and \u2018shahzada\u2019 to attack its opponents\u00a0conceals a larger attack on Muslims<\/a>. Scroll.in<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021 (January 3) Nai Duniya\u2019: Why Shamshur Rahman Faruqi strove to build a new world for literature and language<\/a>. Scroll.In<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020 (December) Fighting the Current Pandemic: Deploying Linguistic Resources is the Key. In Together Apart: A collection of human experiences.<\/a> Pp 29-32. Doha, HBKU Press. (Reprint of the newspaper article).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020 (August 25) How Qatar overcome language and culture barriers in its fight<\/a> against Covid-19. The Gulf Times, Doha Qatar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020 (June 24) \u201cI regret having named him Sahil\u201d: Urdu names in India<\/a>. Language on the Move<\/em>.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020 (June 14) Gulzar Dehlvi (1926-2020) defended the metaphor of Urdu with the subtle weapon of his poetry<\/a>. Scroll.in<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020 (April 12)\u00a0Media watch: How vocabulary was weaponised to target Indian Muslims after the Tablighi Jamat event<\/a>. Scroll.in. India\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020. (April 14)\u00a0Multilingual resources key to fighting COVID-19<\/a>.\u00a0Language on the Move<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020 (February 13)\u00a0Why Must the Uttarakhand Govt Undermine Urdu to Promote Sanskrit<\/a>? The Wire<\/em>. India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019 (August 8)\u00a0The Dilli debate: Why should a city be known by only one name anyway<\/a>? Scroll.in<\/em>. India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019 (May 8).\u00a0Everyone has got it wrong in the Ramadan-Ramzan debate. And no, it\u2019s not about Wahhabism<\/a>. The Print<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019 (February 16).\u00a0Not about numbers: Why Abu Dhabi labour court chose Hindi over Malayalam<\/a>. The Print.<\/em> India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018 (December 23).\u00a0As We Celebrate Urdu, Let\u2019s Not Ignore the Signs of Its Decline in India<\/a>. The Wire<\/em>. India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018 (December 2).\u00a0Waqt, chaawal and Bollywood \u2014 the deep relationship between Indians and Arabs.<\/a>\u00a0The Print<\/em>, India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018. Urdu translation of<\/a> \u2018Renaming India: Saffronization of Public Spaces'(\u0646\u0627\u0645\u0648\u06ba \u06a9\u06cc \u062a\u0628\u062f\u06cc\u0644\u06cc: \u0639\u0648\u0627\u0645\u06cc \u0645\u0642\u0627\u0645\u0627\u062a \u06a9\u0627 \u0628\u06be\u06af\u0648\u0627 \u06a9\u0631\u0646). Mazameen.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018 (October 12).\u00a0Renaming India: Saffronisation of public spaces<\/a>. Al-Jazeera<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018 (September 30).\u00a0Urdu sounds are disappearing from Bollywood songs<\/a>. The Print<\/em>. India<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018 (October 2).\u00a0The Urdu sounds that are disappearing from Bollywood songs<\/a>. Reprinted in the Dawn<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2010.\u00a0\u00a0Persian or Arabian Gulf?: Symbolic meanings of names<\/a>. Al-Watan\u00a0Daily\/ International Herald Tribune<\/em>. Kuwait. March 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2008.\u00a0 Trading words: Understanding contact between nations.\u00a0The Kuwait Times<\/em>. June 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2006.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Old Delhi: A linguistic tapestry.\u00a0The Milli Gazette<\/em>. June 1-15, Delhi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1997.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Ghalib\u2019s Delhi.\u00a0The Pioneer<\/em>. 14 March 1997 Delhi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1996.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Politics of Poetics.\u00a0The Hindustan Times<\/em>. 25 August, New Delhi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1996.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Linguistic Authoritarianism.\u00a0The Indian Express<\/em>. 10 February, Delhi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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