Since my last column about Saadat Hasan Manto’s story ‘Tamasha’, I came across his sketch ‘Hindi Aur Urdu’ (1954). Then I read Firaq Gorakhpuri’s ‘The Hindi-Urdu Issue.’ I encountered new ideas about ...
Priyanka Chopra Jonas attended Zakir Khan’s stand-up show in New York, praising his “kindness, humour and creativity.” The ...
A SIDE from some Persian-Urdu and Urdu-Persian dictionaries, the early Urdu lexicography was almost an exclusive domain of Europeans. The earliest Urdu dictionary is said to have been compiled in 1630 ...
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