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 ...

"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 ...

Reading an Urdu couplet is not only a delight for your soul but also an elixir for your brain. A recent study by the Center for Bio-Medical Researches (CBMR), Lucknow, suggests that reading Urdu ...

Back in my screenwriting days at Burka Avenger (when it hadn’t yet gone public), we used to have these long-winded meetings where we would discuss the plot, individual scenes, gags, dialogues – ...

Nagma Rehman has a lament in her retired life. Ms. Rehman, who retired a year ago as Urdu teacher at the Baxibagh, Government Higher Secondary School in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, says her school has ...

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 ...

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 ...