‘Pakistan’ is derived from the word ‘Pak’ – a Persian word meaning pure or clean and ‘Istan’ – a Hindi word which refers to a land.Pakistan means the ‘Pure Land’.What will you Learn About Pakistan?You will gain an understanding of a number of key areas including:Language ...
Urdu is called alingua franca, a language that is spoken and understood by most people in the country. Urdu is closely to related to Hindi. English is the main language in all schools in Pakistan. There are about sixty languages spoken in Pakistan. Punjabi or Pashto, Sindhi, Saraiki and B...
d) Warsaw Pact 20) Who wrote Pakistan’s first national anthem? a) Hafeez Jallundhari b) Abdul Rab Nishtar c) Jagannath Azad d) Ahmed Chagla 21) Which is the national language ofPakistan? a) Hindi b) Bengali c) Tamil d) Urdu 22) How is Pakistan’s film industry known? a)Bollywood...
English has just the one — a bland ‘friend’. The shortdost(friend) in Hindustani encompasses in its tiny frame a sort of bro-code for the intense relationship that Hindi film songs refer to, between Maana Dey’s ‘Yaari hai Imaan’ (My friend is my faith) to Sholay’s anthem ‘Ye...
with a police cordon surrounding the pitch and another set of cops shushing a group that chanted"harega bhai harega,Pakistanharega" (Will lose, will lose, Pakistan will lose) - their use of Hindi in Tamil Nadu perhaps as provocative as the jeering itself - AC Vijay and Sooria J took in...
local people are proud of it and bring their children to see it. At funerals and weddings, all manner of prayers are murmured and sung, all manner of vows exchanged. They include a reading of the Islamic Fatiha, a recitation of Shakespeare’s Henry V and the singing of the Hindi transla...
English has just the one — a bland ‘friend’. The shortdost(friend) in Hindustani encompasses in its tiny frame a sort of bro-code for the intense relationship that Hindi film songs refer to, between Maana Dey’s ‘Yaari hai Imaan’ (My friend is my faith) to Sholay’s anthem ‘Ye...
national belonging and pride in universities by exploring space as a constitutive element of the visual culture of the higher education environment in India and Pakistan. In both countries, the physical spaces of public universities have become platforms for channelling student voices. This research ...