The use of English shorthand and typewriters expanded towards the end of the 19th century in clerical work in the major cities of the subcontinent. The use of shorthand in Indian languages, however, ...

Period office series always show women with small notebooks following and noting what their bosses are saying. This role was fulfilled by thousands of women from the early twentieth century until the ...

SHAMED BY a scandal over its reporting, the British Broadcasting Corp. is sending its reporters back to school. Among other things, they reportedly will be required to learn shorthand so that ...

Susan Day, a 35-year-old sophomore at Carroll Community College, entered the college’s eighth annual typing-shorthand derby April 27 “just for fun.” She wound up winning the first-place plaque for the ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In this nightmare, I am in an exam hall in southern Poland competing with professional speed-writers working in 11 ...

While a video of Premier Wen Jiabao was displayed on a big screen, a woman typed on a recording machine. As she typed, Wen's words appeared on the screen as subtitles. This was in last Friday's class ...