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The best books on Endangered Languages

Out of 7000 languages on the planet, 700 of them can be found in New York, and many of those are endangered – Samantha Ellis There is usually a lot of violence and displacement in the stories of these languages becoming endangered. The monolingual empire drains the energy from other cultures Samantha Ellis’s book Chopping

Poem: My Homesick Heart

My eyes can also see The green hills Such a scene lights up My homesick heart. She narrates in her own words, “I began working on Persian Eyes after years of rehabilitation, following a serious accident, where I also took up Persian. Following eye surgery, it occurred to me that photography was probably THE best medium for

ACFutsal Qualifiers draw finalised

The 31 teams aiming to appear in the AFC Futsal Asian Cup™ Indonesia 2026 learnt their opponents following the Qualifiers draw at the AFC House in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Thursday. The teams were divided into seven groups of four and one group of three with the Qualifiers to be played on 20th-24th September 2025. The eight

Sharjah records 1.6 million hotel guests in 2024

The Sharjah Commerce and Tourism Development Authority (SCTDA) has announced that the Emirate of Sharjah welcomed approximately 1.6 million hotel guests in 2024, marking an 11 percent increase compared to 2023. The announcement was made during a press conference held on Wednesday with the participation of SCTDA and over 25 government and

Transformation of Love Marriages into Arranged Marriages

In my Valentine’s Day message, I discussed how the tradition of secret love (களவு) marriages in India was gradually corrupted into arranged marriages due to the influx of Aryans into South Asia between 1000 BC and 1000 AD. In this blog, I will explore how the Dravidian society in the Levant region was similarly influenced by Aryan