L: New NYRB edition of "Basti" by Intizar Husain; R: Husain at the Karachi Literature Festival on February 5, 2011. (Karachi Literature Festival/Flickr) No summary of Basti can do justice to its ...

Yale University law student Isra Bhatty recently won a prestigious Rhodes scholarship. When she's not hitting the books, Bhatty works as an English-Urdu translator for detainees at Guantanamo Bay. She ...

URDU translations of Quran began quite late as compared to Quran’s translations into European languages: Robert of Ketton, also known as Rodbertus Ketenensis, translated Quran into Latin in 1143, says ...

An image from a winter morning in Hyderabad, Pakistan, when I was four, forms my earliest memory of literacy. Bundled up in layers of sweaters, I am reciting from an Urdu newspaper as I sit astride my ...