It’s an art widely admired for its beauty, and the skill and creativity required of the artist. But khatati or the fine art of Urdu calligraphy is in danger of dying out in India, because there’s ...

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 padhe ...

In the show titled, Baaton se Baat Nikalti hai, the artist personifies conversation, making her the muse in two and three-dimensional forms. Using sheets of wasli (a type of paper traditionally used ...

Urdu newspapers, books and magazines may have shifted to computerized printing, but the art of calligraphy hasn’t lost its charm. Urdu newspapers, books and magazines may have shifted to computerized ...

Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) is making efforts to impart training and educate students in Urdu Calligraphy. A prominent artist Azeem Iqbal here Tuesday told APP that Calligraphy in ...

An Islamabad-based corporate lawyer Syed Mohammad Anwer has been fusing Urdu and Hindi calligraphy together beautifully and has encased the unique form in a coffee table called ‘Samrup Rachna: Apni ...

An online session on ‘The Art of Calligraphy’ in Arabic, Persian and Urdu’ was presented by Jawahar Kala Kendra. The hour-long class was conducted by calligraphy artist, Khurshid Alam. The programme ...

Some time back, Sanket Avlani had a chance to tag along with a friend to meet artists, who practise Urdu calligraphy, in Purani Dilli. The katibs (calligraphers) not only gave them a glimpse into ...

This is an interesting read. The Musalman daily newspaper is created each day by hand. Calligraphers take the day’s news from the editor and translate and write out the news in Urdu by hand. Four ...

HYDERABAD: Seated on a wooden stool, under a tinted glass chandelier, Mohammed Abdul Gaffar peered over a handmade paper on which he made a slow swish with a reed pen dipped in black ink. Standing ...

Native speakers of the Urdu language instinctively know that the language is read from right to left but the numerical values mentioned within an Urdu sentence are read from left to right. To the ...

He was a schoolboy in the summer of 1976, keen on playing in the scorching heat of Rawalpindi. But his mother wanted him to remain indoors, so she taught him to write Hindi in the Devanagari script.