Can literary festivals save Urdu, or do Imambaras keep it alive? This essay explores Muharram, oral traditions, and ...

Dr. Abid Moiz, physician and scholar, argues that Urdu must move beyond poetry to embrace science and modern knowledge. His ...

What questions do you pose to a man whose legacy spans eight decades? But Gulzar has a way of holding forth when we meet him at his Mumbai bungalow. Dressed in his signature white kurta-pyjamas, the ...

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 ...

The Supreme Court ordered on Tuesday the implementation of Urdu as the official language at all government departments, Express News reported. A three-member bench of the apex court headed by Chief ...

Urdu, like other languages of the world, has been classified by linguists on the basis of its morphological and syntactical features. Urdu nouns and adjective can have a variety of origins, such as ...

Urdu has been a controversial language in Pakistan despite its official and holy status. The Bengalis rejected it way back in the 1940s when Jinnah, advised by a bureaucracy, with imperial moorings ...

The National Language Authority (NLA), or Muqtadira Qaumi Zaban, was established in 1979 under Article 251 of the 1973 Constitution. The main objective was to pave the way for adoption of Urdu as ...

Former Union Minister Murli Manohar Joshi asserted that Urdu is an Indian language, not foreign. Recalling Vajpayee-era ...

The attack on a Muslim school principal for teaching Urdu ‘to non-Muslims’ should serve as a wake-up call for those who ...

Understanding a language you can't speak feels like a personal failure. Linguists have a different explanation—and it changes ...