One of the many works of Persian calligraphy on display at the Freer Sackler Gallery. There are many who see the foreign symbols of the Arabic alphabet as art themselves, in contrast to the bland ...

In the United States, cursive is dying a slow, loopy death. Roughly only half of the states require kids to learn it, leaving a generation of children to try and decipher grandma’s birthday cards like ...

Mumbai: In a move aimed at preserving Maharashtra’s rich historical and administrative legacy, the state government has announced two annual awards to promote the study and use of Modi and Persian ...