Click on images to enlarge. Urdu is our national language and is the language of the majority of our religious books. Our ulemas and religious leaders are very articulate expressing themselves in Urdu ...

I write a weekly column for this newspaper, an English language daily and at times it becomes difficult to comment on things with a perspective that is fresh, relevant and not dated — week after week.

URDU humour column has a long history. Though ' Oudh Punch ', a humorous magazine launched from Lucknow in 1877, ran humorous pieces and even its editorial notes had a tinge of humour, they were not ...