PUNE/ MUMBAI: Language lovers often find themselves lost in the labyrinthine rules of grammar. But Yasmin Shaikh, an acclaimed grammarian and Marathi language expert, has always viewed grammar as ...

During the last census in 2011, the surveyor who showed up at Yasmin Shaikh's doorstep did what people often do when they hear her name—he assumed. "Urdu," he wrote in the mother tongue column without ...

It's the simplicity with which she can interpret Marathi grammar and punctuation, through a Braille reader that makes 22-year-old Siddhi Desai special. PUNE: It's the simplicity with which she can ...