The six-year-old South Asia Institute, 1925 S. Michigan, examines this new brand of calligraphy with an expansive exhibition that should appeal not only to calligraphy and Asian-art devotees but ...

That 300,000 people celebrated Urdu verse during a three-day festival was testament to the peculiar reality of the language in India. The inaugural day of the Urdu poetry festival Jashn-e-Rekhta ...