Urdu Prose

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The Urdu prose uploaded here is all in PDF format. Each piece is preceded by a related introductory paragraph in English. Below each paragraph is the title of the piece. Click it to reach its PDF. Some pieces are 2 or more pages long. Scroll down as you read each page. Please leave your comments in the box provided for each at the end.

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Bunyad-e-Zaban

This is one of my several essays published in the Urdu Daily Jung London in the 1990s. It deals with the gradual erosion of minority languages for immigrant children growing up in Europe and America. The challenge of mother-tongue maintenance in the … Continue reading →