That the two founding figures of Indian and Pakistani independence were united by a shared love of Urdu speaks eloquently of the language’s rich history. From left, Pandit Jawarharlal Nehru, Vice ...

Hyderabad: Bollywood actor Jaaved Jaaferi has sparked a fresh conversation around Urdu with a point many people may not have thought about before, in a resurfaced clip. The actor and performer ...

When Urdu journalism is celebrating 200 years of its existence, it seems to be perhaps the best opportunity to clear some myths and misconceptions about Urdu. Urdu was born and flourished in India.

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

URDU poetry is weathering a new trend in India: salacious thoughts expressed in risqué language, not only trampling decency but intentionally trying to shock the readers while ignoring all the rules ...

One is quite familiar with the expressions: Urdu speaking, Urdudaan and Urdu medium, literal and colloquial. Urdu-speaking people are not just the ones who natively speak Urdu or the descendants of ...

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 ...

That 300,000 people celebrated Urdu verse during a three-day festival was testament to the peculiar reality of the language in India. The inaugural day of the Urdu poetry festival Jashn-e-Rekhta in ...