Tariq Khan works as a Lecturer cum Junior Research Officer at the Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL), Ministry of Education, Government of India. He is interested in Psycholinguistics, Humour Studies, Sociolinguistics, Writing Systems, Translation Studies and Inter-cultural Pragmatics. Tariq Khan has received his M.A., M.Phil. and PhD in Applied Linguistics at the Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies, University of Hyderabad.