“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 ...

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.

Discover some surprising facts about Urdu, including how much it has in common with other languages. Also available in Urdu with audio. 'I don't understand!' Learn this phrase in Urdu, as well as many ...

After we arrived in upstate New York in the fall of 2017 as cultural exchange visitors, we kept thinking about how to introduce the people here to some aspects of Pakistani culture. We kept bouncing ...

BJP state president Bandi Sanjay’s statement that Urdu will be banned completely if the saffron party comes to power in the state has drawn flak from various quarters. Urdu has historically been a ...

In 2012, Sanya* joined an institute to learn MS Office. When the teacher was delivering a lecture, she noticed the girl sitting next to her was writing furiously. Her pen danced across the page like ...

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 ...

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 ...