Urdu is not something Dr Mehr Afshan Farooqi, daughter of Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, first encountered in a classroom. It is ...

Six years ago, the nationwide lockdown gave us the rare gift of time in abundance. We employed this time towards building ...

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 ...

The Urdu scholar and translator discusses Ghalib, literary culture, declining Urdu literacy in Indian universities, and the ...

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 ...

And the entire theological universe that made his poetry possible, that gave it its specific gravity and daring and precision ...

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 ...

Javed Akhtar challenges the misconception that Urdu is a Muslim language, emphasizing it's region-specific, not religion-specific. During an event, he asserted that Urdu and Hindi were equals until ...

Hyderabad: Urdu is a Lashkari (mixed dialect). It is a Persianised standard register of Hindustani language. It has 30 consonants, 20 vowels, two diphthongs; non-tonal; stress being on the penultimate ...

Celebrated Urdu poet Bashir Badr passed away at the age of 91 in Bhopal after a prolonged illness. Known for his timeless ...

According to Muhammad Ateeq Siddiqi, newspapers and books in Persian and Urdu in the late 18th and the early 19th centuries were printed through the typeface invented by Wilkins. The popularity of ...