Mild sunlight warms the streets tightly packed with books, stalls and rows of parked vehicles. Shops aligned adjacent to each other brim with colourful books meant to appeal to book lovers. The market ...

After we arrived in upstate New York in the fall of 2017 as cultural exchange visitors, we kept thinking about how to introduce the people here to some aspects of Pakistani culture. We kept bouncing ...

Urdu books are experiencing an overwhelming response at the 44th Sharjah International Book Fair, with the National Council ...

The world will soon be celebrating reading and books. The Urdu-Speaking Union (USU) is seizing the opportunity to launch its first book fair in Mauritius. This sale-exhibition has already started and ...

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 text ...

Nestled in Chandni Chowk, one of the city’s oldest and busiest markets, the Urdu Bazaar seems like a fading relic of Delhi’s rich cultural heritage. The bazaar dedicated to Urdu literature, which once ...

National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) will be providing Urdu textbooks from the forthcoming academic session. Good news for Urdu-medium students. National Council of ...

Looking for a copy of the Quran in Bengali? Want to read Rabindranath Tagore’s works in Urdu? Planning to buy a Hadith Challenge Game for your children? If yes, head for Mohammad Ali Park, on ...

21. Khayalaat-i-Azad: collected satirical essays of Nawab Syed Muhammad Azad. 22. Kala pani: an autobiography by Jafer Thanesari. 23. Seerat-un-Nabi: life of Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) in ...

IN a recent meeting held at a university to discuss the curriculum for the teachers’ education programme, it was hotly debated whether or not Urdu was a ‘lashkari zaban’ or the so-called ...

After we arrived in upstate New York in the fall of 2017 as cultural exchange visitors, we kept thinking about how to introduce the people here to some aspects of Pakistani culture. We kept bouncing ...

Urdu is the language of love not of a community, said Farhan Wasti, who established Jashn-e-Urdu (which organises the biggest Mushaira of the world in Dubai and Delhi) Urdu is the language of love not ...