Dr Afroz Taj, associate professor in the department of Asian studies at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, USA, came to the U.S. in 1981 as a student and stayed on to teach a host of ...

Asserting that he is one of the advocates for teaching English in primary schools along with Urdu and Kannada, chairman of the Karnataka Urdu Academy Mubeen Munawar has said that the academy plans to ...

It is 2pm, and a seven-year-old boy sits in an after-school Urdu remedial class, his fingers tracing the unfamiliar curves of the words before him. The sentence on the page seems simple enough: “Yeh ...

After we arrived in upstate New York in the fall of 2017 as cultural exchange visitors, we kept thinking about how to introduce the people here to some aspects of Pakistani culture. We kept bouncing ...

According to a Urdu lecturer at a government college in Kota district, there are over a dozen Hindu college lecturers and around 60 school lecturers who are teaching the language in Rajasthan. Even as ...

HYDERABAD: About three years ago, the Maulana Azad National Urdu University (Manuu) in Hyderabad rolled out a six-month certificate course in basic Urdu. One would imagine that it is targeted at ...