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

How a Sinhalese writer and an Urdu translator collaborated without knowing each other’s language

Ajmal Kamal

· Mar 02, 2019 · 12:30 pm

By creating Urdu covers for English record albums, a Pakistani artist has found herself

Senna Ahmad, Dawn.com

· Feb 17, 2019 · 03:30 pm

Can men write convincingly about women in fiction? This collection of Urdu stories shows how

Ipshita Nath

· Feb 02, 2019 · 12:30 pm

Urdu and Hindi could be one language called Hindustani. Will the politics of language allow it?

David Lunn, Dawn.com

· Jan 28, 2019 · 07:30 pm

‘My mutiny is against patriarchy': Watch this young Urdu poet take on criticism of 'immodest’ women

Scroll Staff

· Jan 23, 2019 · 11:15 am

A new book shows us ways to read Shahryar’s life in his poetry, and poetry in his life

Nikhil Govind

· Oct 28, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Subversive in verse: How Delhi’s Urdu poets once challenged emperors and clerics

Malini Nair

· Oct 08, 2018 · 11:30 am

Saif Mahmood’s book shows us we cannot know Delhi today until we knows its poets from yesterday

Anand V Taneja

· Oct 06, 2018 · 12:30 pm

‘Beloved Delhi’: This book explores how Dilli became the city of poets, and of Urdu

Saif Mahmood

· Sep 12, 2018 · 08:00 am

He wrote the lyrics of ‘Umrao Jaan’. Was the Urdu poet Shahryar a progressive or a modernist?

Rakhshanda Jalil

· Aug 24, 2018 · 08:30 am

Ibne Safi, unlikely combination of poet and pulp fiction writer, would have been 90 this year

Ibne Safi

· Jul 26, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Surging Hindi, shrinking South Indian languages: Nine charts that explain the 2011 language census

Shoaib Daniyal

· Jul 04, 2018 · 07:30 am

From Urdu to English: Translator Musharraf Ali Farooqi chronicles his journey

Ilona Yusuf

· Jun 13, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Two novellas reacquaint us with the finest Urdu writer of our time, Intizar Husain

Annie Zaidi

· Jun 09, 2018 · 12:30 pm

Writer-storyteller Ankit Chadha dies after drowning in lake near Pune

Scroll Staff

· May 11, 2018 · 11:07 am