In India, Urdu remains an official language in several states and continues to thrive in cultural, literary, and cinematic domains ...

In the exhibition, along with 45 Quranic manuscripts, calligraphy panels and works of art have were presented and placed before the public. These Qur'ans are written in beautiful Nastaliq, Thulth ...

Editor's note: Chinese calligraphy is the artistic practice of writing Chinese characters using a brush and ink. Celebrated for its aesthetic beauty and cultural depth, Chinese calligraphy is not ...

“When we criticise Urdu, we are in a way also criticising Hindi… True, Urdu is mainly written in Nastaliq and Hindi in Devanagari; but then scripts do not make a language. What makes languages ...

When Hamid Hemat accepted a curatorial post at Connecticut’s Wadsworth Atheneum in 2022, the refugee from Kabul, Afghanistan, was surprised by what he found. The Wadsworth is the oldest public ...

Highlighting the linguistic overlap, the court noted that while Urdu is generally written in the Nastaliq script and Hindi in Devanagari, scripts do not define a language. “What makes languages ...

True, Urdu is mainly written in Nastaliq and Hindi in Devnagri (sic); but then scripts do not make a language. What makes languages distinct is their syntax, their grammar and their phonology. Urdu ...