The second day of the Bahar-e-Urdu festival was a vibrant celebration at the Dome SVP Stadium, marking fifty years of ...

LITERARY trends and movements do not come and go with the flip of the calendar. Somehow we tend to gauge literary ideas and trends according to our own sense of time when they have their own natural ...

Sitting in my university office in Paris, I was recently visited by a young French student wishing to learn the Urdu script. He had traveled to Turkey to study Indian Sufism, and his teachers had told ...

Language is identity. This is something most people believe in. When I began researching Hyderabad’s history over the last ...

The neglect of the Urdu language in Pakistani society is deeply concerning and must be addressed before its decline becomes irreversible. Urdu is one of the most lyrical and culturally rich languages ...

The festival features discussions across a range of issues – from the history of Urdu and translation to Israel's violence in Gaza and meme culture – as well as a performance, mushaira and ...

Pakistani star Sajal Aly, who is also one of the leads in Shekhar Kapur’s “What’s Love Got to Do with It?,” will lead a series adaptation of Urdu-language novel “Umrao Jaan Ada.” A classic of Urdu ...