NASTA’LEEQ, also spelt nastaliq, is considered the most beautiful of all hands used in Persian and Urdu calligraphy. But ...

Farmaiye,” says 60-year-old Professor Arinder Singh as he begins the conversation and one immediately knows that a wealth of beautiful Urdu words is about to fill the air. His love for the language is ...

The decrease in Punjabi speakers over time is attributed to several factors. Many argue that Punjabis do not associate their ...

This year marks the 73rd anniversary of the 1952 Language Movement. Drawing on research based on various published books, ...

Multilingualism could be the key to our future success as Indians, each of us knowing at least two or more languages ...

Writer, researcher and historian Badruddin Umar has said Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had no role in the Language Movement, but ...

The three-day literary festival features foreign and local authors and other cultural figures, discussing a myriad of topics.

Faiz Ahmad Faiz is a poet of this family, the family of which Persian poet Nazeeri Nishapuri said, “The one who is not killed ...

Rojar Randhawa, a Catholic activist, prays at the grave of Akash Bashir. Very few people visit the grave of the first native ...

Meanwhile, the Akhil Bhartiya Urdu Shikshak Sangh has urged the state board and the school education minister to issue a ...

Balochi language has made remarkable progress in the digital era. It has recently been incorporated in Google Translate and ...

Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, is home to more than 20 million people and has been in the news many times due to climate-related issues such as heat waves, urban flooding and bad air quality. On ...