Hindi films would not be what they are without a dash of Urdu poetry. Naturally, a book that offers a rich variety of couplets, remarkable for their mnemonic quality, is likely to interest most ...

“[Ralph Russell] is easily the best Urdu scholar in the west.” The book under review, A Thousand Yearnings – named after a verse by Mir – is an edited version of Hidden in the Lu ...

She worked as SIL’s team leader in northern Pakistan from 1999 to 2006. The second book titled ‘Farzand-e-Urdu’ is an anthology of complimentary essays authored by academics and scholars of ...

The first book is a versified translated version of noted poet and ex-bureaucrat Karamat Bukhari’s Urdu poems into English. The remaining two books forming collections of Urdu verse ...

Writer, translator and literary historian Rakhshanda Jalil’s critical work on Urdu progressives and other writers is well-recognised as are her translations from Urdu. In her latest book, Love ...

(when, where and why?), the book proffers rare information on the marks and abbreviations used in Urdu to punctuate the text. What were the signs used for punctuating Urdu texts in old days?

Urdu Academy has chosen the unusual theme of terrorism for the 10-day book fair organized on its premises on Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Road. KOLKATA: Urdu Academy has chosen the unusual theme of terrorism ...

Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar (BUQ), described as the oldest Urdu literary organisation in Qatar (established in 1959), recently organised a mushaira and a launch ceremony for the Urdu prose book 'Dastaan dar ...

Since then, the department has been holding classes free of cost, but ironically, never had an Urdu teaching book of its own. Fortyeight... The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started ...

[Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] The China International Development Cooperation Agency launched the Urdu edition of a book comprised of stories about China's foreign assistance on Friday.

KARACHI: A book on humanism in Urdu poetry titled Urdu adab mein insaan dosti by journalist and researcher Akhtar Balouch was launched at the Karachi Press Club on Saturday evening. Director of ...

The section on George Peuch ‘Shor’, the first known Urdu poet of the city opens the relation that Aligarh had with Europe. The book also covers in detail the satirical verses of Akbar ...