India is a country whose wonderful diversity stems from the richness of its past. That includes the Urdu script. Sitting in my university office in Paris, I was recently visited by a young French ...

Aamer Hussein is a novelist and short story writer. His first stories in Urdu appeared in a recent edition of Dunyazad. A. writes about how, though his fiction is in French, he thinks in Moroccan ...

NASTA’LEEQ, also spelt nastaliq, is considered the most beautiful of all hands used in Persian and Urdu calligraphy. But using this style of penmanship for writing Urdu with the help of mechanical ...

Editor and translator Rakhshanda Jalil's new anthology begins with a story by one of the four pillars of the modern Urdu short story: Krishan Chander (right). (Images courtesy Rakhshanda Jalil and via ...

The audience cheered and clapped entreating the poets for an encore. At the 56th edition of Bazm-e-Mushaira in the national capital last month, the energy and the evocation of emotions did well to ...

Because she is the answer to our prayers,” wrote actors Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh on Instagram in November while revealing their newborn daughter’s name, Dua. Apt, memorable, and short—Urdu ...