Watch: This Pakistani taxi driver in Dubai chats with his customers in ten different languages
Husain can speak fluently in English, Arabic, Russian, Malayalam, Tagalog, Pashto, Hindi, Urdu, Persian, and Chinese.
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1Language and power: What Ambedkar and Periyar teach us about Maharashtra’s Hindi debate
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2For Jane Austen and her heroines, walking was more than a pastime – it was a form of resistance
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3A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant
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4How the uncivility in India’s gated communities is the result of deliberate political design
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5Why Zohran Mamdani’s New York win does not really hold lessons for progressives across the world
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6Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit
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7This book is an alternative account of literary beginnings in modern India through women’s writings
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8What India can learn from China: Dictatorship, democracy and the road not taken
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9Bihar voter roll revision: Why having to prove you are an Indian citizen is a nightmare
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10Tech jobs aplenty in Dubai’s AI boom – depending on your passport
