That 300,000 people celebrated Urdu verse during a three-day festival was testament to the peculiar reality of the language in India.

Keeping the art of Urdu calligraphy alive in Hyderabad A handful of calligraphers in Hyderabad are trying to keep this ornate style of lettering going, pushing back against the rapid digitisation ...

Art exhibition: Simple calligraphy ‘fails to make impression’ Calligrapher Rathore says while some artists seek to ‘beautify canvas’ he focuses on legibility.

An online session on ‘The Art of Calligraphy’ in Arabic, Persian and Urdu’ was presented by Jawahar Kala Kendra.

ISLAMABAD: For a more purposeful imposition of Urdu as the official language in government offices, simple and easy words should be used so that the common people can understand it easily ...

For Chatta Bazar’s seven-odd khatibs, who run Urdu printing shops parallely, the recent announcement that the government has declared Urdu the second official language of Telangana, serves as a ...

Urdu calligraphy used to be the mainstay of the vernacular press until the digitisation of the print media in the 1990s. Photo: S.R. Raghunathan/THE HINDU ...

An exhibition depicting the evolution of Urdu calligraphy - one of the most ornate alphabet writings - from the confines of fine print into a high art form was inaugurated at the Jamia Millia ...