We can insert an excerpt of Arabic and Persian text into an Urdu article without any changes in spellings because our alphabet has all the letters of both languages. We can also write most of ...

Urdu calligraphy and pens. Letters are now a nostalgic pastime. The “art of letter writing”, we call it wistfully, mostly because we detest the brief, auto-prompt sentences we write today.

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 ...

Jamia MilLia Islamia University is devising a unique way to introduce reading and writing Urdu for Indian and foreign students.