It is 2pm, and a seven-year-old boy sits in an after-school Urdu remedial class, his fingers tracing the unfamiliar curves of the words before him. The sentence on the page seems simple enough: “Yeh ...

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 ...

Despite perks and privileges of being able to speak English in Pakistan, Urdu remains to be our first language. No matter how much we eat, speak and wear English, Urdu remains a language that we mourn ...

Urdu poetry, fuelled by love and longing, fired up by politics, amplified by Instagram and reimagined by indie bands, is finding new fans What’s your love language? For young people in India today, it ...

Nagma Rehman has a lament in her retired life. Ms. Rehman, who retired a year ago as Urdu teacher at the Baxibagh, Government Higher Secondary School in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, says her school has ...

A worthy translation of Kafka’s The Castle by Tariq Aziz Sindhu The popularity of Franz Kafka refuses to wane as neither time nor changing age has been able to reduce his magic. Each generation of ...

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 ...

In the latter half of the 19th century, a movement to replace Urdu by so-called Hindi arose with the sole emphasis on replacing the Persian nastaliq script by Nagari. Therefore, institutions like ...

Pakistan is in the process of adopting a Single National Curriculum (SNC), which means all schools—state-run “Urdu-medium” and the commercially run “English medium”—will now teach the same courses.

THE URDU reading circle will hold its next meeting at Bolton Central Library later this month. The group, which encourages reading in the Asian community, will meet on February 21. For details call ...