URDU is passing through one of the strangest phases of its life these days. A section of the society, especially the new generation who doesn't give it a damn, seems too indifferent to care for the ...

IN one of my columns in an Urdu-language daily, I mentioned a book 'Sarguzasht-i-Alfaaz'. Written by Ahmed Din (1866-1929), the book, probably the first of its kind in Urdu, discussed the origins of ...

KARACHI: Urdu’s first online thesaurus was recently launched and in no time it has attracted the attention of many who are usually at a loss for words while communicating in the language they hold so ...

Words fascinate me and so do origins. One of the experts in etymology for Urdu, the language of Pakistan, is Khaled Ahmed, who I had the pleasure of interacting with off and on at The Friday Times and ...

Those who wish to confine Urdu to a specific accent are fighting a despairing battle against the overwhelming range of intonations of ever-evolving Urdu Many native speakers of Urdu feel it is their ...