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Language Classes
- Although immersion works best, many of us like to learn a language in a class, so take your pick from these institutions. The Ghalib Academy offers an Urdu Certificate Course "to keep the young generation in touch with Urdu."
Where: Basti Hazrat, Nizamuddin. Contact 24351098 or ghalibacademy05@yahoo.com
- The Delhi Government also provides classes through the Urdu Academy. Where B-Block, 5-Sham Nath Marg. Contact 23830635
- Delhi University has plenty of Urdu options. From its Department of Urdu, you can earn an advanced diploma in one year, a bachelor’s degree in three, a master’s in two, or a Ph.D. in two. Contact 27666627, 27667725, or 27661303
- If you would rather get those degrees at your convenience from home, take correspondence courses from Jamia Millia Islamia’s Department of Urdu. Contact Head, Department of Urdu, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi 110 025
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Calligraphy
- Nearly anyone can write in cursive, but doing calligraphy is an art form. For formal classes, you can attend the Ghalib Academy’s Calligraphy Training Centre or Decorative Calligraphy Training Centre. Where Basti Hazrat, Nizamuddin
Contact 24351098 or ghalibacademy05@yahoo.com - On a more personal level, Irshad Hussain Farooqi can teach you how to do it. He also turns Urdu words into paintings. Where: Farooqi Calligraphy Crafts, 837/B, Street No. 22, Moti Masjid Road. Contact 26982387 or 9968070070
- Anis Siddiqui of the Anis Foundation and Calligraphy Institute is more of an Urdu tutor. He will come to your house and show you how to write artistically. Where: 189/1 Khampur, W Patel Nagar. Contact 9810076064 or 9868929064
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Entertainment
- The Urdu Academy does a lot to promote Urdu culture, offering things like monthly magazines, book fairs, mushairas, drama festivals, and theatre workshops for children. Where: B-Block, 5-Sham Nath Marg. Contact 23830729 or 23830635
- The Sham-e-Ghazal Society has worked to bring ghazal concerts to Delhi for more than 38 years. To find out when the next concert will happen, email Indira Varma, the society’s president. Contact ivarma@vsnl.com or ivarma@ airtelbroadband.in
