the urdu project

It seemed right to begin in Delhi, the home of the Urdu Shakespeare Ghalib, while making a film about Urdu. Delhi is, after all, the...

In my own experience, the best things that life has to offer rarely come to us gift-wrapped. They appear as minor aberrations at the near...

I’ve had a crazy time today finding fonts on InPage 2014, which is a word processor and page layout software for languages such as Urdu,...

Work on The Urdu Project resumed five days ago (though it feels like its been a lot longer with the amount of ground we’ve covered). We...

Since I had managed to learn the characters and how they joined together, I could manage to read the language fairly accurately, though...

I began by making notes. I pulled up the Arabic character set off of Wikipedia, the whole alphabet, and then did the same for Urdu. I...

We had studied the author Munshi Premchand’s stories in Hindi class in school; we listened to Gulzar’s Urdu lyrics in the songs in hindi...

When you see one of those imported cans of Pepsi from the Middle East, more specifically from an Arabic speaking country, it would be...

The whole affair began when I was working on a short documentary in Ahmedabad. It was about the naubatkhaana, which is, literally, “the...