No year-enders this time. I have not recovered enough from what this year inflicted on me to write dispassionately about it. But as the name promises, I am writing the next worst thing: the decline ...

The resounding success of Jashn-e-Rekhta in Delhi and the Urdu Book Fair at Aligarh Muslim University indicate the enduring ...

The Rekhta Foundation, Noida, India, presented their heart-and-brain child Jashn-e-Rekhta Dubai 2025, the world’s largest festival dedicated to the celebration of Urdu language, literature and culture ...

On the Hindi author and playwright’s latest work, ‘Mushkil Kaam’, a collection of Hindi short stories presented in the Roman script. PREMIUM Hindi writer Asghar Wajahat has been calling for an ...

As a child, I studied at the Lal Ded Primary School, an institution run by the Hindu Education Trust. This trust had a chain of schools and colleges in the city of Srinagar. It was a minority trust ...

Calligraphy is the art of beautiful handwriting, characterized by carefully executed lettering or script. It involves the skilled and artistic manipulation of pen, brush, or other writing instruments ...

Urdu has come to be associated with the florid idioms of ‘ghazal’ and ‘shayari’. (iStockphoto) In early 2019, in the comparatively benign days before Twitter assumed its current avatar X, a viral ...

Muzzumil Ruheel’s recent show at Canvas Gallery is an affirmation that, despite an abundance of rehashed works in the art market, there is still art that can pull you towards a place of quiet ...

It is more likely than not that Urdu lovers would have met Muskan Syed Riaz in the UAE during an event that promotes the language. Poet, speaker and emcee, she is a very active member of Bazm-e-Urdu ...

The Persian word for calligraphy is "khoshnevisi" and a calligrapher is known as "khoshnevis". Calligraphy is also synonymous with khat (literally, line or script) and khat neveshtan (writing script).

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 ...