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.

As India prepares for its 2027 national census, language has once again become a political flashpoint. Debates over mother tongues, medium of instruction and linguistic identity are intensifying, ...

The language called Urdu is the life of Hindustan. Prologue: A Flight, a Word, a Realization It was while flying over the Black Sea that I noticed a town on the Turkish coast—Ordu. The name struck me.

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 ...

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 ...