THE standards of Urdu have suffered a tangible lapse and we have come to terms with the tragedy. But one’s heart sinks when one listens to some so-called professors of Urdu mispronounce shehr aashob, ...

Luckily, Mehmil (or, literally, a saddle of a camel that carried women travellers), an anthology of Urdu short stories by women writers, had appeared in 1947 from Badayun. Compiled by some Mujid ...