Reading an Urdu couplet plays a significant role in brain development and prevents the onset of dementia, a recent study has suggested. Not only a beautiful language, Urdu is also an elixir for our ...

"The Greatest Urdu Stories Ever Told", compiled and translated by Muhammad Umar Memon, features 25 of the finest Urdu short stories. NEW DELHI: It is good news for Urdu literature aficionados, as 25 ...

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 ...

POSTCOLONIAL discourse is not anything new: back in 1978 with the publication of Edward Said’s book Orientalism ...

“My love, I cannot tell the tale of all the things I want from you. A hundred longings fill my soul, a thousand yearnings throng my heart.” — Mir Taqi Mir Of late there has been a renewed interest 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 ...