At the renowned Urdu Akademi, non-Muslims are increasingly enrolling in Urdu courses, challenging the stereotype that the ...

In the bustling heart of Old Delhi, Indian bookseller Mohammed Mahfooz Alam sits forlorn in his quiet store, among the last ...

Eminent Urdu writer Shamim Tariq on Wednesday said that Firaq Gorakhpuri is the Mir of modern Urdu poetry. Tariq was speaking ...

ISLAMABAD: Renowned Urdu poet and scholar Jaun Elia was remembered on his 22nd death anniversary here on Friday.

Since my last column about Saadat Hasan Manto’s story ‘Tamasha’, I came across his sketch ‘Hindi Aur Urdu’ (1954). Then I read Firaq Gorakhpuri’s ‘The Hindi-Urdu Issue.’ ...

The annual four-day Urdu Heritage Festival returned to the Capital on Thursday, offering a plethora of cultural events, ghazal and qawwali performances as hundreds of people crowded the Central ...

Bathinda: Reciting couplets in Urdu or using Persian words might be a hallmark of Manpreet Singh Badal, the former finance minister of Punjab, but his former friend-turned-political adversary ...

Urdu, spoken by millions, has a rich past that reflects how cultures melded to forge India's complex history. But its literary offerings are now struggling against the cultural domination of Hindi ...

New Delhi (AFP) – In the bustling heart of Old Delhi, Indian bookseller Mohammed Mahfooz Alam sits forlorn in his quiet store, among the last few selling literature in a language beloved by ...