URDU is passing through one of the strangest phases of its life these days. A section of the society, especially the new generation who doesn't give it a damn, seems too indifferent to care for the ...

IN one of my columns in an Urdu-language daily, I mentioned a book 'Sarguzasht-i-Alfaaz'. Written by Ahmed Din (1866-1929), the book, probably the first of its kind in Urdu, discussed the origins of ...

There was something instinctive about it, like a current pulling me back towards the language of my parents and grandparents ...

KARACHI: Urdu’s first online thesaurus was recently launched and in no time it has attracted the attention of many who are usually at a loss for words while communicating in the language they hold so ...

Urdu poetry is often considered synonymous with love. Various shades of love, ranging from physical to metaphysical; all the nuances of the experience of love, ranging from disappointment to ...

There are more than five crore Indians who speak Urdu, as per the last census, but this poetic language, which is one of the country’s official languages, experienced a 1.5 per cent drop since 2001.