A new exhibition in Dubai aims to shift perceptions on Urdu, presenting it as more than just a language but as a form of ...

A Visual Language' showcases works from 12 artists, aiming to present Urdu script as a visual art form and encourage appreciation beyond its literary value.

Gulzar, the recipient of the Jnanpith Award, expresses optimism about the future of Urdu. He believes that despite the decline of the Urdu script, the language itself is alive and thriving, with Urdu ...

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 ...

For years, Urdu on the internet has depended on one name more than most people realize: InPage. If you have [...]Read ...

New Delhi, Feb 17 (PTI) Looking back at the evolution of Urdu over a span of eight centuries, popular poet Gulzar today emphasised on the need to revive the script of the language. The award-winning ...

Zeerak Ahmed has spent years in the U.S., working for some of the world’s biggest tech companies. But one thing he has grown frustrated with is how “computing treats non-Latin languages as second ...

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 ...

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 post-independence India, Urdu has undergone a strange trajectory both in the language politics and in the socio-cultural realm. Born, flourished and having seen the heyday of its glory in this ...