In his English rendering of select Urdu ghazals, short-stories and other genres, Ralph Russell opens up an appreciation of Urdu literature to a wide range of readers. When I was in primary school, ...

Toward the end of the late Indian writer Ismat Chughtai’s short story “Mutti Maalish,” Ratti Bai, a hospital maid, describes to an upper-class patient two methods of abortion used by poor women in ...

PETER Trudgill is one of the world’s renowned authorities on sociolinguistics and dialects. Trudgill says in his book On dialect: Social and geographical perspectives that “one of the things that ...

Urdu scholar and translator Rakshanda Jalil’s new collection Whose Urdu is it Anyway? is linked by one theme: to challenge the notion that Urdu is the language of Muslim writers alone, especially in a ...