The etymology of Persian words is not always very familiar to the public. In contrast, the roots of words in other languages, such as Arabic and English, are more accessible. For example, it is easy ...

On December 11, 2019, the Delhi High Court issued a ruling in a public interest litigation asking that the Delhi Police be stopped from using difficult Persian and Urdu words in their first ...

Hyderabad: Names like Shah, Namdar, Nareeman or Nariman are Persian in origin and are used in India due to the cultural influences brought by travellers and traders over the centuries. The ...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ordered government and cultural bodies to use modified Persian words to replace foreign words that have crept into the language, such as “pizzas” which will ...

What to call the Persian language in Afghanistan? It's a question Afghans have grappled with and sparred over for decades. The long-simmering dispute was reignited after the BBC changed the name of ...

As government functioning are becoming more and more transparent the world over especially among democracies, it will always be in mutual interests of the citizen and the state to become more ...