Urdu is a hybrid language that is based on the spoken languages of Northern India with a generous overlay of Arabic and Persian words. ‘Urdu’ is a Turkish word, which means a camp. When Muslims from ...

Review of the proceedings of an international conference to undertake a realistic appraisal of Urdu language in the formal system of education in contemporary India and to discuss ways of bringing ...

Sitting in my university office in Paris, I was recently visited by a young French student wishing to learn the Urdu script. He had traveled to Turkey to study Indian Sufism, and his teachers had told ...

Pakistan has recently issued a directive to grant its national language and lingua franca, the literary vehicle of South Asian Islam, Urdu, official status. Perhaps inspired by Indian Prime Minister ...

The National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language is organizing a massive Urdu Book Fair at Aligarh Muslim University from ...

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 ...

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, ...

Hyderabad: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath sparked controversy by claiming the Samajwadi Party wants to "teach Urdu and make people maulvis." Such remarks oversimplify Urdu’s role in ...

Renowned Urdu scholar, author and translator CM Naim died at age 89 on Wednesday in Chicago, his family has told the press. Naim’s love for Urdu literature was evident in the nearly 60 years he ...

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