Vaniya
20 · Lucknow
Published author. Believes Urdu belongs to anyone who’ll listen.
Harf
Making Urdu fun for everyone
01 The Mission
Urdu is a language of poetry, longing, and the everyday — but for most people growing up around it, the only way in is a textbook or a religious class. We thought there should be a third door. Harf is live classes, short videos, and the language as it was always meant to feel. Learn in a batch, catch up on recordings, or just hang around and let it grow on you. However you find your way in, you're welcome here.
02 The Logo
The mark is two letters in one. The Urdu حر, hay and ray and the Latin F, sharing a stroke.
Harf means letter. It's the smallest piece of a language, the thing every word is built from. We liked the idea that our logo is exactly that: one mark, two scripts, the place a story starts.
03 Meet the Founders
Two people, both in their twenties, both in love with Urdu, both sure the language deserves a better way in for everyone who grew up around it. That's how Harf started.
Hishaam
24 · Calcutta • Bangalore
Engineer by trade. Found Urdu through Nusrat and the Sabris, and never quite left.
04 What We Make
Live classes in small batches, recordings you can watch on your own time, and short videos for when you just want to spend five minutes with the language. Miss a session? It's waiting for you. Not ready to commit? Just follow along. We're building Harf as a place where Urdu has room to breathe — for learners, for lovers of the language, and for everyone in between.
Classes and content both coming soon. Follow along.