In a vibrant celebration of language and cultural heritage, the Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival, in collaboration with ...

The frequently asserted "foreignness" of Urdu is, on the evidence, unsustainable. But the fact that it is so widely believed is a phenomenon that deserves independent attention.

It is about Pratap, the Urdu newspaper founded in Lahore days before the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, and its founder-editor Mahashay Krishna and his son Virendra, the latter a member of the ...

THERE are, presumably, 2,600 words that are common in Urdu and the Turkish language, as listed in Purdil Khatak’s book Urdu Aur Turki Ke Mushtarak Alfaaz (Islamabad, 1987). But many of these words are ...

IT is often said that the twentieth is the century of nationalism as it witnessed a phenomenal growth in national feelings, especially in Asia and Africa.