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 ...
Sitting in my university office in Paris, I was recently visited by a young French student wishing to learn the Urdu script. He had traveled to Turkey to study Indian Sufism, and his teachers had told ...
Actor and television host Juggun Kazim recently opened up about her ‘English-medium’ upbringing, her inability to read Urdu, and the humbling lessons she learnt while working with Pakistan Television ...