IN DELHI’S Urdu Bazaar in 1980s, there were some 80 shops selling Urdu books. Now there are barely six and they too have to wait for a passionate customer looking for Urdu books, says a story by ...
URDU orthography, or the traditional spelling rules that govern the writing of Urdu language, has always been a bone of contention. It was Rasheed Hasan Khan (1925-2006 — his dates of birth and death ...