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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 12-day long Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival starts on May 11 with scores of activities from reading sessions to workshops, interactive sittings with participating authors from different ...

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 ...

Ashraf shad is coordinator of Urdu international Australia. He is well-known Journalist, Novelist, poet, short story writer, academic, with 14 published books. He told SBS Urdu that storytelling guest ...

That Urdu is spoken by a large number of people in Bengaluru is well known but Urdu literature and theatre is also thriving in the city Her lips were painted black, she wore distressed denims, her ...