Reading an Urdu couplet plays a significant role in brain development and prevents the onset of dementia, a recent study has suggested. Not only a beautiful language, Urdu is also an elixir for our ...

At a London gathering a few nights ago, I heard a fellow-Karachiite complain: “There are so many books for children in English, but when I tried to find similar stories in Urdu for my daughter, there ...

If you want to make high-brow small talk at one of President Barack Obama’s cocktail parties, don’t bother brushing up your Shakespeare. Try reading Urdu poetry. As POLITICO’s Ben Smith points out in ...

"The Greatest Urdu Stories Ever Told", compiled and translated by Muhammad Umar Memon, features 25 of the finest Urdu short stories. NEW DELHI: It is good news for Urdu literature aficionados, as 25 ...

It’s on a Tuesday evening in January, under a canopy of incandescent bulbs, that I receive my first lesson in Urdu: the difference between alcohol and mirages.I am part of a small mehfil gathered in ...

A worthy translation of Kafka’s The Castle by Tariq Aziz Sindhu The popularity of Franz Kafka refuses to wane as neither time nor changing age has been able to reduce his magic. Each generation of ...

New Delhi, Feb 24: Many of us, who daily commutes from one place to another for job or any other reason, spedn our time in train reading books. Reading book in a train is an excellent idea of ...