The second day of the 10th edition of Jashn-e-Rekhta saw a mushaira by acclaimed names, including Wasim Barelvi, Javed Akhtar ...

THOMAS Roebuck was a 19th-centruy Scottish orientalist and lexicographer. Roebuck knew Urdu, Hindi and Persian ...

THE decline of the Urdu language among Pakistan’s youth is widely regarded as a significant issue. Literature, in all its forms, is the principal medium for transmitting shared cultural and ...

Speaking at the opening session of the 10th Jashn-e-Rekhta Festival, Gulzar shared how destiny brought him to Shah and ...

Ahmedabad: Anne Scholl, a German graphic designer married to a Tripura native, learns Hindi at Gujarat Vidyapith. \"I want to ...

Dr Praveen Yograj [email protected] My dear brothers and sisters of Duggar, the time has come for us to stand tall and reclaim what is truly ours. Dogri is our mother tongue, the Dogra Rajput ...

Speaking at the inaugural session of the 10th Jashn-e-Rekhta Festival, Gulzar said he had initially planned a feature film on ...

A good film is as vital to Pakistani cinema as a bad one, because one bad film spells doom for the upcoming good ones. Sadly, ...

When the Rekhta Foundation launched its first Jashn-e-Rekhta in 2015, the idea was simple -- to bring Urdu out of the two-dimensional space of books and put it before people in all its lived, performe ...

Balochi is spoken by millions, but without preservation efforts, it risks vanishing from formal, intellectual, and digital ...

Directed by Sonil Shanker, written by Khan, and translated into Urdu by Kulsoom Aftab, Dreams of Ithaca is described by its ...

Legendary writer-poet Gulzar believes he was destined to make his acclaimed 1988 TV show “Mirza Ghalib” with Naseeruddin Shah, who while still a student, wrote to him declaring how he was the best man ...