It is not a substitute for learning the finer points but following an Instagram page called Words in Urdu can add context to your vocabulary and understanding of the language. “I’ve been knockin’ on ...

After we arrived in upstate New York in the fall of 2017 as cultural exchange visitors, we kept thinking about how to introduce the people here to some aspects of Pakistani culture. We kept bouncing ...

“My grandmother said one learns English to woo a girl but when there’s heartbreak, you come back to Urdu,” shares Devyesh Tripathi, a lawyer practising at the Delhi High Court. The Urdu enthusiast ...

Ms Lubna brings her three children every week to the Urdu language school in Preston (New South Wales) to help them learn and communicate in Urdu. “I want my kids to learn Urdu as it is our language," ...

It’s on a Tuesday evening in January, under a canopy of incandescent bulbs, that I receive my first lesson in Urdu: the difference between alcohol and mirages.I am part of a small mehfil gathered in ...

Urdu remains the language of poetry that accumulates aashiqs at every adaa, but Gen Z is reclaiming it as a connection to their pre-Partition heritage Akshita Nagpal’s move from Delhi to Versova in ...