Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar organised the International Mushaira on December 26 in Doha aimed at nurturing the Urdu language and ...

In this episode of Urdunama, host Fabeha Syed turns to one of Ghalib’s most well-known ghazals, ‘Koi Umeed Bar Nahin Aati’, ...

Doha: Bazm e Urdu Qatar, Urdu literary organisation in Doha, once again upheld its tradition by organising an International ...

As December descended, people all over the country could finally sense a relief from their pangs of a year-long wait for ...

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

Who does Urdu belong to? India's right-wing seems to think it's a foreign import, forced upon by so-called Islamic invaders. The latest fracas happened in April when a reporter from a far-right news ...

A new release featuring British pop star Zayn Malik singing in Urdu has gone viral in South Asia, and it's giving fans in the West a taste of Pakistani music. ONE DIRECTION: (Singing) Baby, you light ...

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 ...

That the two founding figures of Indian and Pakistani independence were united by a shared love of Urdu speaks eloquently of the language’s rich history. From left, Pandit Jawarharlal Nehru, Vice ...

Sudha Pai in 2002 stated, “If a language is not characterised by political neutrality, it too often becomes the tool by which this language group seeks to extend its domination over the minority ...