Chowrangi blog informs about a free interactive mobile app which introduces kids to Urdu alphabets and words. The app titled “Urdu Ustad” originally had the diaspora Urdu-speaking families as its ...

A UK-Based couple, Shahid Khan, IT professional, and Imbisaat Geti, scientist at the University of Cambridge, has taken on an unlikely project. They have started a YouTube channel to make Urdu simpler ...

Discover some surprising facts about Urdu, including how much it has in common with other languages. Also available in Urdu with audio. 'I don't understand!' Learn this phrase in Urdu, as well as many ...

“My grandmother said one learns English to woo a girl but when there’s heartbreak, you come back to Urdu,” shares Devyesh Tripathi, a lawyer practising at the Delhi High Court. The Urdu enthusiast ...

URDU alphabet has 54 letters, including 15 letters denoting aspirated sounds. The statement is often considered contentious as the inclusion of 15 letters for aspirated sounds plus ‘hamza’ and ‘alif ...

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 ...