After we arrived in upstate New York in the fall of 2017 as cultural exchange visitors, we kept thinking about how to introduce the people here to some aspects of Pakistani culture. We kept bouncing ...

It is 2pm, and a seven-year-old boy sits in an after-school Urdu remedial class, his fingers tracing the unfamiliar curves of the words before him. The sentence on the page seems simple enough: “Yeh ...

Abdul Ghaffar inspects the line of Urdu I have written and then bursts into laughter. “To me, people like you who know how to read and write Urdu in normal script are padhe hue (literate). Not padhe ...

Thirty-five years after Uttar Pradesh (UP) adopted Urdu as its second official language, chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s speech in the state assembly has revived the contentious issue over the ...

Actor and television host Juggun Kazim recently opened up about her ‘English-medium’ upbringing, her inability to read Urdu, and the humbling lessons she learnt while working with Pakistan Television ...