Urdu words for Indo-Iranian

Diwan: Rational Word with Irrational Meanings

If you’re here early, you know it’s the season of festivities, celebrating different Indian Demi-Gods and -Goddesses. If celebration is something to be taken as a precursor of things to come, you’d sure have caught the whiff that Jashn-e-Rekhta is ...continue reading

Izafat: Making Sense of Knotty Grammar

Grammar can be aesthetically pleasing. On that bold claim, I begin to take to one of Urdu grammar’s most charming facets, the Izafat. From ‘Tah-e-Dil se Shukriya’ to ‘Chashm-e-Bad-Door’, we come across the Izafat several times in our Roz-Marra. But ...continue reading