Once India’s common language, Urdu is now boxed as Muslim identity. Dr Rakhshanda Jalil’s anthology reclaims it as India’s ...

After reading some interesting analyses of the dominance of the Hindi-belt in India, I thought about my work on culture, language, and politics, specifically the decay of Urdu litearure in ...

An anthology of Urdu short stories attempts to bust stereotypes around who writes in Urdu, and for whom. Editor Rakshanda ...

ISLAMABAD: The federal government is taking several steps to implement Urdu as an official language in all government departments under Article 251 of the Constitution. In this regard, the Ministry of ...

The language called Urdu is the life of Hindustan. Prologue: A Flight, a Word, a Realization It was while flying over the Black Sea that I noticed a town on the Turkish coast—Ordu. The name struck me.

Indian writer, poet and songwriter Javed Akhtar, who has been making headlines lately for his bold and controversial statement about Pakistan, has now decided to declare that the Urdu language is an ...

Urdu remains the language of poetry that accumulates aashiqs at every adaa, but Gen Z is reclaiming it as a connection to their pre-Partition heritage Akshita Nagpal’s move from Delhi to Versova in ...

Civil society members protested the postponement of an event featuring Javed Akhtar by the West Bengal Urdu Academy. The ...

So when the Bengal government’s Urdu Academy canceled a much-publicized event with well-known poet and lyricist Javed Akhtar ...