After reading some interesting analyses of the dominance of the Hindi-belt in India, I thought about my work on culture, language, and politics, specifically the decay of Urdu litearure in ...

When Hamid Henry wrote a play about Easter for a Pakistani television channel, he struggled to present the words "Paschal" and "Eucharist" in Urdu, the national language, for his Muslim viewers.

KARACHI: Four-day 18th Urdu Conference, tagged “Celebration of Pakistan” started Thursday at the Arts Council of Pakistan. The opening ceremony was attended by the special guest Sindh Governor Kamran ...