WHEN the sun peeped out from behind the horizon on August 14, 1947, much to its surprise it was an altogether different landscape in the subcontinent, not only politically but also literarily and ...

HOW intriguing that at a time when English, with its status as a global language, is swaying South Asian literary minds, one seasoned English fiction writer settled in London has taken a jump in the ...

Google has updated its Handwriting Input app to include five new languages. Now, customers who speak Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Hebrew and Burmese will be able to scribble words on to the input pad, ...

Google Handwriting Input has been the savior of the keyboard-remedial since its inception. It got its own stand-alone app earlier this year, but since then, we haven’t seen much action on the Google ...

DPS-Modern Indian School (DPS-MIS) recently conducted the intra-school Arabic and Urdu handwriting competition and the Holy Qur’an recitation competition for students of Class-I to VIII, with an aim ...

Frenchman Julien Columeau came to Pakistan at the age of 30 as a humanitarian worker - but a knack for languages and love for books have made him one of the country's most innovative Urdu novelists.

Urdu newspapers, books and magazines may have shifted to computerized printing, but the art of calligraphy hasn’t lost its charm. Urdu newspapers, books and magazines may have shifted to computerized ...

French author Julien Columeau reads a book in Urdu language at a book store in Lahore, on January 20, 2014 Frenchman Julien Columeau came to Pakistan at the age of 30 as a humanitarian worker – but a ...