Urdu poetry still inspires people. While finding a sher or shayar is an issue, some platforms are giving a renewed push to a ...

Roman Urdu is often used as a stand-in online. Earlier attempts at digitizing the Urdu script relied on the Naskh Arabic font, which is straighter and therefore easier to code.

As Baba-i-Urdu had done the spadework and had chalked out guidelines for such a huge dictionary - and it included streamlining the sequence and number of letters in Urdu alphabet - when the first ...

Meanwhile, the winner of the 2022 Sahitya Akademy prize for Urdu literature, Dr. Anees Ashfaq, has argued that the Urdu language will die if its script is converted.

It’s the script that keeps varying — sometimes Devanagari, sometimes Urdu. I write in both these scripts, but my main medium is still Urdu. Secondly, let’s not forget, Urdu was born in India.

However, this is not the case for Urdu, as there is no consensus on the number of letters comprising the Urdu alphabet. In his new book on the Urdu alphabet and orthography, Urdu Imla Aur Huroof-i ...

It all began in 2013 with a website, Rekhta.org, started by Sanjiv Saraf, an engineer and businessman who was a lifelong lover of music set to Urdu poetry and had just begun learning the script at ...

Zeerak Ahmed has spent years in the U.S., working for some of the world’s biggest tech companies. But one thing he has grown frustrated with is how “computing treats non-Latin languages as ...

Zeerak Ahmed has spent years in the U.S., working for some of the world’s biggest tech companies. But one thing he has grown frustrated with is how “computing treats non-Latin languages as second ...

Zeerak Ahmed has spent years in the U.S., working for some of the world’s biggest tech companies. But one thing he has grown frustrated with is how “computing treats non-Latin languages as ...