IT is quite strange that very little is known about S. W. Fallon (1817-1880) though he was a fine lexicographer who compiled some of the earliest of Urdu-English dictionaries. Fallon’s ‘A new ...

DUNCAN Forbes (1798-1868) was a Scottish scholar of oriental languages and literature. Though Forbes penned a number of works on Urdu, Persian, Arabic and Bengali, his better known books are ...

HYDERABAD: Seventy--one-year-old Yakoob Miran Mujtahedi, who joined gove r nment service as a translator, continues to do the same, though officially retired as deputy director of translations (Urdu) ...

For the survival of hundreds of years of aesthetic beauty hidden in the Urdu language, it is important that Pakistanis and other Urdu speakers have a serious discussion about how they want to treat ...