Uttarakhand: Railways to replace Urdu with Sanskrit on platform signboards

Scroll Staff

· Jan 19, 2020 · 08:22 pm

Google doodle marks 101st birth anniversary of Urdu poet and lyricist Kaifi Azmi

Scroll Staff

· Jan 14, 2020 · 11:02 am

‘But now these cruel times have almost run their course’: Eight poems for 2020 by Faiz Ahmed Faiz

Faiz Ahmed Faiz

· Jan 05, 2020 · 07:30 am

‘I am in a state of wonder, certainty doesn’t convince me’: Urdu novelist Mirza Athar Baig

Akhtar Mirza

· Dec 29, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Mirza Athar Baig’s surreal Urdu novel in translation will be the first wild ride of fiction in 2020

Mirza Athar Baig

· Dec 25, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘Worried about India’s future’: Urdu writer Mujtaba Hussain to return Padma Shri award

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· Dec 18, 2019 · 06:18 pm

This novel is a dark comedy in the terrifying times of Zia-ul-Haq's rule in Pakistan

Intizar Husain

· Nov 22, 2019 · 05:30 pm

How Pakistani novelist and translator Musharraf Ali Farooqi built his Urdu thesaurus for the world

Musharraf Ali Farooqi

· Nov 10, 2019 · 12:30 pm

‘Roll of the Dice’: In this story a dramatic crime takes place inside a bus in a city in Pakistan

Aniqa Naz

· Sep 26, 2019 · 08:30 am

This journal by a Hindu writer from Lahore is a rare non-fiction account of the Partition

Fikr Taunsvi

· Sep 25, 2019 · 08:30 am

Watch: When Jaaved Jaaferi explained the outcome of making slight changes in Urdu pronunciation

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· Sep 23, 2019 · 10:32 am

Qurratulain Hyder was modern and experimental before most other Indian writers walked on that road

Fatima Rizvi, Sahapedia

· Aug 18, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Watch: Actors Kumail Nanjiani, Natalie Morales take a class on slang in Urdu, Spanish

Scroll Staff

· Jul 09, 2019 · 08:00 pm

This novel in translation imagines the Partition from the perspective of women who stayed at home

Niyati Bafna

· Apr 27, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Watch: Meet Delhi resident Georgina Lazar, who reads her Bible in Urdu

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· Apr 21, 2019 · 10:00 am

What two scholars who introduced an Urdu course in a US college realised about Pakistani textbooks

Asma Begum, Dawn.com Mushtaq Bilal, Dawn.com

· Apr 19, 2019 · 08:30 pm

‘Cosmopolitan Dreams’: A vital book charts Urdu’s journey from newsprint to novel

Asif Farrukhi

· Apr 18, 2019 · 05:30 pm

‘Hajiyani’: Read the piece that won the Jawad Memorial Prize for Urdu-to-English translation

Javed Siddiqui Fatima Rizvi

· Apr 07, 2019 · 05:30 pm

How do you select and translate Urdu ghazals by 65 poets written over 500 years? Ask Anisur Rahman

Maaz Bin Bilal

· Mar 31, 2019 · 12:30 pm

‘This border that drinks blood and spits sparks’: Voices of Urdu poets on war and peace

Rakhshanda Jalil

· Mar 08, 2019 · 12:30 pm