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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Former Union Human Resource Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi on Thursday asserted that Urdu is an Indian language and ...

Yet, when we turn to the Urdu genre of marsia, particularly the works of Mir Babbar Ali Anees, we encounter a distinction that sets it apart from all other epics. Unlike most epic poetry in literature ...

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 ...

Radio Pakistan has uploaded the online Urdu Talking Dictionary of authentic pronunciation, 'Lafz o Awaz ki Urdu Dictionary', to its website on a trial basis. Minister for Information and Broadcasting ...

Tensions soared in Nizamabad when a dispute over unauthorized Urdu instruction at a school turned chaotic. BJP members ...