Urdu calligraphy and pens. Letters are now a nostalgic pastime. The “art of letter writing”, we call it wistfully, mostly because we detest the brief, auto-prompt sentences we write today.

Abdul Ghaffar inspects the line of Urdu I have written and then bursts into laughter. “To me, people like you who know how to read and write Urdu in normal script are padhe hue (literate). Not ...

My mother scribbled some letters in my scrapbook and asked me to copy them a hundred times each with a ‘qalam’, a special pen with a broad slant nib meant to write Urdu letters in the Nastaliq ...

My mother scribbled some letters in my scrapbook and asked me to copy them a hundred times each with a ‘qalam’, a special pen with a broad slant nib meant to write Urdu letters in the Arabic ...

Jamia MilLia Islamia University is devising a unique way to introduce reading and writing Urdu for Indian and foreign students.