Love of Urdu

ACCRA, GHANA: This is with reference to your report of July 18 by Arshad Shaheen titled “Urdu experts have the last word”. The dictionary is indeed a monumental contribution. I am a Hindi-speaking Hindu in India who fell in love with Urdu during my childhood. I bought a qaeda on the train and my mother and I taught ourselves Urdu — so much so that I started reading Urdu newspapers. But what I missed was knowing the meaning of some of the words that I would read – and this dictionary will fill that gap. The next step would be to make this dictionary available online to reach the millions beyond the reach of paper.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 20^th, 2010.