There was something instinctive about it, like a current pulling me back towards the language of my parents and grandparents As someone who speaks in English, thinks in English and has published two ...
MISCONCEPTIONS about Urdu prose abound. Many believe Urdu prose hardly existed before the revolution of 1857. Some feel there has never been any scientific or philosophic prose in Urdu and most of ...
On a fog-laden Delhi morning, the staff of a Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) school begins lining up students for assembly. The primary school is tucked into the by-lanes of Old Delhi, the ...
Despite the dazzling glare and shimmer of the screen, the yearning for books, conversation, poetry recitations and music remains unremitting. There is a remarkable enthusiasm even in languages other ...
On July 14, the Central Administrative Tribunal ruled that it would no longer be mandatory for an applicant to the post of a naib tehsildar in Jammu and Kashmir to know Urdu. To insist on it, the ...
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 ...
The once-thriving world of Urdu-language media in India is today a shadow of its former self. From icons like Qaumi Awaaz and Roznama Rashtriya Sahara to lesser-known weeklies, many publications that ...
It is 2pm, and a seven-year-old boy sits in an after-school Urdu remedial class, his fingers tracing the unfamiliar curves of the words before him. The sentence on the page seems simple enough: “Yeh ...
Delhi University on Saturday clarified that the listing of "Muslim" as a 'mother tongue' and the omission of Urdu from its undergraduate admission form was a "clerical error", after the move triggered ...
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 has emphasized that India's linguistic diversity should be celebrated, not be a cause for division. The court upheld the use of Urdu, alongside Marathi, on a signboard in Maharashtra ...
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