Nagma Rehman has a lament in her retired life. Ms. Rehman, who retired a year ago as Urdu teacher at the Baxibagh, Government Higher Secondary School in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, says her school has ...

Urdu scholar and translator Rakshanda Jalil’s new collection Whose Urdu is it Anyway? is linked by one theme: to challenge the notion that Urdu is the language of Muslim writers alone, especially in a ...

Contrary to the current perception that Urdu is the language of Muslims alone, reality tells a different story. Some of the greatest non-Muslim writers, like Munshi Premchand, wrote in both Hindi and ...

The term ‘Urdu novel’ refers to fictional works that have emerged over the past one and a half centuries. Research published in literary magazine Adbiyaat’s special issue on the Urdu novel indicates ...

Sudha Pai in 2002 stated, “If a language is not characterised by political neutrality, it too often becomes the tool by which this language group seeks to extend its domination over the minority ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the use of Urdu language on the signboard of a municipal council building in Maharashtra's Akola district. The bench said saying that "Urdu the finest specimen of ...

Urdu is born in this land, the Supreme Court has said while describing it as the finest specimen of 'Ganga Jamuni tahzeeb' and stating that considering it a language of Muslims is a "pitiable ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the use of Urdu on the signboard of a municipal council building in Akola district of Maharashtra, saying that “language belongs to a community, to a region, to ...

Are you of the Pakistani persuasion and live in a land called 'abroad'? And in this great wide land of beyond, do you also crave being crowned mother of the year? Then I have bad news for you, because ...

Criticising Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath over his controversial remarks about Urdu and him using a pejorative word, Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi said that the language is ...

Urdu targeted in India as right-wing politics distorts history and fuels division Urdu is intertwined with India's cultural, literary, and historical heritage, especially in poetry, cinema, and ...

rdu. The very word evokes a sense of nostalgia, a whisper of poetry, a connection to a rich cultural heritage. More than just a language, it’s an emotion, a shared history, a mother tongue that ...