A bookish new eatery opens in Alserkal, Sikka Art & Design Festival takes over Dubai’s heritage districts and and new exhibitions spotlight emerging voices ...

Acorn TV continues to stream some of the best new titles from all around the world straight to our homes this January, including premieres from originals like My Life Is Murder: Season 5 and Hidden ...

MUST a poet know ilm-i-arooz or prosody? Some poets say no and argue that prosodic metres teach us to measure the poetic rhythms and patterns of sounds as they occur in a poetic line, but prosodic ...

Virginia’s New LG & Hyderabad Born Ghazala Hashmi On Speaking Urdu In The US Hyderabad-born Ghazala Hashmi created history when she became the first Muslim woman and first South Asian American to win ...

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New York City, the US: Swinging around a tree mimicking the signature open-arm lean of Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan, Zohran Mamdani asks, “Hey! Have you ever voted before?” An enthusiastic group of ...

GONE are the days when Urdu’s literary works had an initial print run of 1,000 or 1,100 copies. Now the number has gone unbelievably down. Back in the 1960s and 1970s, literacy rate was low but people ...

Contrary to the current perception that Urdu is the language of Muslims alone, reality tells a different story. Some of the greatest non-Muslim writers, like Munshi Premchand, wrote in both Hindi and ...

Shehzadi Bilqees Saba's family fled sectarian violence in Pakistan, but the mother of five says they face uncertainty over protection visas in Australia. Shehzadi Bilqees Saba, her first husband ...

The Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board has published an Urdu textbook for the eleventh grade. This textbook is part of the revised syllabus introduced by the Punjab Education Curriculum and ...