An online session on ‘The Art of Calligraphy’ in Arabic, Persian and Urdu’ was presented by Jawahar Kala Kendra. The hour-long class was conducted by calligraphy artist, Khurshid Alam. The programme ...

Abdul Ghaffar inspects the line of Urdu I have written and then bursts into laughter. “To me, people like you who know how to read and write Urdu in normal script are padhe hue (literate). Not padhe ...

Art enthusiasts and students got an opportunity to learn skills such as bamboo craft, pottery, Urdu calligraphy, bookbinding and stamp-making Urdu calligraphy artist Usman Ghani teaches students some ...

When art meets language, the result is colourful poetry. Kashmir’s traditional art of papier-mâché will soon be used to promote Urdu language and vice-versa. An artist painting motifs on a ...

Several burqa-clad women and a lone man cram into a tiny classroom on the ground floor of a shopping complex in Jogeshwari (W). The art of Urdu and Arabic calligraphy attract many passionate ...

Native speakers of the Urdu language instinctively know that the language is read from right to left but the numerical values mentioned within an Urdu sentence are read from left to right. To the ...