“THE disappearance of readers of Urdu literature is not news anymore”, writes Ather Farouqui, a scholar and secretary of Anjuman Taraqqi-i-Urdu Hind (ATUH), Delhi. Now Urdu’s literary gatherings do ...

KARACHI: The Amazon Kindle is largely credited for revolutionising the reading experience for the new generation of bookworms. Since the release of the popular e-reader, numerous such applications and ...

As reading shifts from shared print cultures to fragmented digital feeds, what happens to the common habits that once ...

Nagma Rehman has a lament in her retired life. Ms. Rehman, who retired a year ago as Urdu teacher at the Baxibagh, Government Higher Secondary School in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, says her school has ...

Toward the end of the late Indian writer Ismat Chughtai’s short story “Mutti Maalish,” Ratti Bai, a hospital maid, describes to an upper-class patient two methods of abortion used by poor women in ...

There are still such people in our society who love to read Urdu and appreciate this beautiful language that possesses such depth in vocabulary. It is heartening to see people make an effort to ...

In translating Kundera’s Immortality into Urdu, Arshad Waheed has made a serious attempt to introduce a modern global sensibility to the Urdu reader The Urdu version of Milan Kundera’s novel ...