Civilisational Fetish

Amitava Kumar tells why he is waging a war on academic and lawyerly writing in his new book

The problem of language in higher education

To what do we pay greatest allegiance? Family, language group, country, gender? Religion, race? And if none of these matter, are we urbane, cosmopolitan, or simply lonely?

A lot can be gained in translation

Emojis, animojis and now memojis are changing the way we communicate online

Novelist and traveller Lawrence Osborne on the art of seeing and writing

A  journey after the Bangladesh War

Remembering an eclectic mind of allusive style

Urdu claims its rightful place as a voice of the people