The curious case of literary censorship in Urdu with special emphasis on the oeuvre of Mir Taqi Mir, one of the greatest ...

Kahani ek shaher ki’ by Dr. Jawaz Jafri‘Samaey ka dhara’ & ‘Dar-e-imkaN pay dastak’  by Yusuf KhalidProse poetry is a lit ...

ON International Women’s Day, let us remember a woman writer of Urdu who could not even mention her real name in her writings. Very few knew that the real name of Mrs Abdul Qadir, once a well-known ...

Engineers at NED University of Engineering and Technology claim to have developed an Artificial Intelligence-powered application that brings Urdu books to life. The app can convert printed Urdu ...

NASTA’LEEQ, also spelt nastaliq, is considered the most beautiful of all hands used in Persian and Urdu calligraphy. But using this style of penmanship for writing Urdu with the help of mechanical ...

The Urdu Adab’s special issue on Mir Taqi Mir acknowledges a past mistake of censorship and rectifies it by publishing, for the first time, the complete unabridged text of ‘Zikr-i Mir’, the poet’s ...