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 ...

Indeed, the Urdu lexicographer Rauf Parekh asked how the Roman alphabet can be used to write Urdu or any other language when it does not even represent all sounds that occur in English.

In Urdu, there are some good works on research and editing, which cover some aspects of academic writing, say the editors, but with the passage of time they have become stale as they are not ...

A WIDESPREAD misconception about letter-writing in Urdu is that Ghalib pioneered it. But the fact is Ghalib began writing letters in Urdu in late 1840s and Urdu’s earliest letter traced so far ...