India’s top court upheld the use of Urdu on public signboards in Maharashtra, rejecting the notion that the language was alien to the country. The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that Urdu and Marathi, ...

Prayagraj: Madrassas and Basic Education Council schools will now have new books for classes 1 and 2 for Urdu language and separate books for mathematics and English. Urdu Zubaan – the book so far ...

Gulzar, the recipient of the Jnanpith Award, expresses optimism about the future of Urdu. He believes that despite the decline of the Urdu script, the language itself is alive and thriving, with Urdu ...

Saadat Hasan Manto was of the view that a language cannot be made or developed, it develops on its own. Manoj Roy Saadat Hasan Manto was of the view that a language cannot be made or developed, it ...

Who does Urdu belong to? India's right-wing seems to think it's a foreign import, forced upon by so-called Islamic invaders. The latest fracas happened in April when a reporter from a far-right news ...

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 ...

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 ...