Letters are now a nostalgic pastime. The “art of letter writing”, we call it wistfully, mostly because we detest the brief, auto-prompt sentences we write today. Poet Agha Shahid Ali, in his poem ...

“My grandmother said one learns English to woo a girl but when there’s heartbreak, you come back to Urdu,” shares Devyesh Tripathi, a lawyer practising at the Delhi High Court. The Urdu enthusiast ...

It is not a substitute for learning the finer points but following an Instagram page called Words in Urdu can add context to your vocabulary and understanding of the language. “I’ve been knockin’ on ...

How many letters are there in the Urdu alphabet? I wish I could answer this question in unambiguous terms. But the controversy over the total and correct number of letters in Urdu alphabet has been ...

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 ...

For parents living outside Pakistan who want to teach their children the Urdu language, a group of students at Sukkur Institute of Business Administration (IBA) have launched a phone application.

he fact that the alphabet of a language could be a contentious issue may be surprising for a large number of Pakistanis, given that we seldom dive deeply into the linguistics of Urdu or other ...

In 1857, Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, better known by his last name, sought refuge in the art of letter-writing to express the pain and sorrow he had witnessed during the first War of Independence. A ...