urdu
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Uttarakhand: Railways to replace Urdu with Sanskrit on platform signboards
Scroll Staff
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Google doodle marks 101st birth anniversary of Urdu poet and lyricist Kaifi Azmi
Scroll Staff
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‘But now these cruel times have almost run their course’: Eight poems for 2020 by Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
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‘I am in a state of wonder, certainty doesn’t convince me’: Urdu novelist Mirza Athar Baig
Akhtar Mirza
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Mirza Athar Baig’s surreal Urdu novel in translation will be the first wild ride of fiction in 2020
Mirza Athar Baig
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‘Worried about India’s future’: Urdu writer Mujtaba Hussain to return Padma Shri award
Scroll Staff
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This novel is a dark comedy in the terrifying times of Zia-ul-Haq's rule in Pakistan
Intizar Husain
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How Pakistani novelist and translator Musharraf Ali Farooqi built his Urdu thesaurus for the world
Musharraf Ali Farooqi
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‘Roll of the Dice’: In this story a dramatic crime takes place inside a bus in a city in Pakistan
Aniqa Naz
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This journal by a Hindu writer from Lahore is a rare non-fiction account of the Partition
Fikr Taunsvi
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Watch: When Jaaved Jaaferi explained the outcome of making slight changes in Urdu pronunciation
Scroll Staff
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Qurratulain Hyder was modern and experimental before most other Indian writers walked on that road
Fatima Rizvi, Sahapedia
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Watch: Actors Kumail Nanjiani, Natalie Morales take a class on slang in Urdu, Spanish
Scroll Staff
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This novel in translation imagines the Partition from the perspective of women who stayed at home
Niyati Bafna
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Watch: Meet Delhi resident Georgina Lazar, who reads her Bible in Urdu
Scroll Staff
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What two scholars who introduced an Urdu course in a US college realised about Pakistani textbooks
Asma Begum, Dawn.com Mushtaq Bilal, Dawn.com
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‘Cosmopolitan Dreams’: A vital book charts Urdu’s journey from newsprint to novel
Asif Farrukhi
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‘Hajiyani’: Read the piece that won the Jawad Memorial Prize for Urdu-to-English translation
Javed Siddiqui Fatima Rizvi
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How do you select and translate Urdu ghazals by 65 poets written over 500 years? Ask Anisur Rahman
Maaz Bin Bilal
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‘This border that drinks blood and spits sparks’: Voices of Urdu poets on war and peace
Rakhshanda Jalil