Now a new, 700-page, collection titled Muheet-ul-Amsaal: Kahavaton Aur Maqoolon ka Majmoo’a has just come out. Compiled by Wasiullah Khokhar and published by Lahore’s Daarun Navaadir, it is the ...

You know more of the Bible than you think you do, I often remark to my students. Phrases such as “As a dog returns to its own vomit” or “spare the rod and spoil the child” are well-known in English as ...

Konkani is one of the smaller Indian languages, spoken mainly on the Western coast of India. Its speakers are scattered far and wide in a regional diaspora of sorts. Konkani proverbs have a certain ...