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4th Annual Urdu Culture Show at UC Berkeley was held on May 3rd, 2009. After being disappointed last year, I was expecting improvement this year and I am glad to say that this year’s show was ten times better than the last one.

The usual line up of acts included a live song, poem recitation, ghazal [...]

After the success of last year’s Urdu Cultural show, Pakistani Student Association at University of California, Berkeley have organized yet another show this year.
Urdu is a language that is spoken by approximately 60 – 80 million speakers in five nations worldwide. Additionally, Urdu is spoken by millions in both India and Pakistan, two nations [...]

I reviewed this show last week and now I have couple of videos to share with you. I mentioned in my review that all the acts like the song/ghazal performances, Qawwali, and Khabarnama were very nicely done. Well… here I have two videos; one is of the Qawwali and the other is of a funny [...]

I went to see “An Afternoon Dedicated to Urdu” show at UC Berkeley which was last weekend on May 3rd, 2008. This show was presented by Pakistani Students Association at UC Berkeley.
The show had quite a lineup of acts including, but not limited to, a live song/ghazal performance, a Qawwali, Saturday Night Live type news [...]

Pakistani Students Association at the University of California, Berkeley is hosting an urdu language cultural event on May 3rd, 2008. The event called “Eik Dupair, Urdu Ki Sair” which in English means “An Afternoon Dedicated to Urdu” will have a variety of segments in Urdu that will include skits, plays, musical performances like Qawwali, speeches [...]