The National Academy of Performing Arts (NAPA) recently hosted the launch of the bilingual coffee table book, Three Tales from Gulistan-e-Saadi. The event, organised in collaboration with the Joy of ...

A bilingual book, Three Stories From Gulistan-e-Saadi, for children and adults will be launched today (Sunday) by Joy of Urdu — a volunteer-run, bilingual organisation working to promote Urdu language ...

A few weeks ago, in a class on Urdu poetry in translation, I was asked a disconcerting question about the status of Urdu as a language. In light of the frequent controversies generated around the ...

Toward the end of the late Indian writer Ismat Chughtai’s short story “Mutti Maalish,” Ratti Bai, a hospital maid, describes to an upper-class patient two methods of abortion used by poor women in ...

In Urdu: The Best Stories of Our Times, edited and translated by Rakhshanda Jalil, we find stories from contemporary writers of Urdu fiction, on wide-ranging themes and tones, presenting a ...

Edited by Shams Afif Siddiqi and Fuzail Asar Siddiqi and translated by the former, this collection gives English readers a hitherto unavailable glimpse into the city’s Urdu literature If asked to name ...