Urdu Worlds' challenges traditional boundaries, exploring language, identity, intersection of art, cultural heritage ...

But Dr Sajid Siddiq Nizami’s just-published research-based book on history of Urdu prose from the earliest times to Ghalib not only dispels all these misconceptions but also makes the reader realise ...

Gulzar, the recipient of the Jnanpith Award, expresses optimism about the future of Urdu. He believes that despite the decline of the Urdu script, the language itself is alive and thriving, with Urdu ...

In post-independence India, Urdu has undergone a strange trajectory both in the language politics and in the socio-cultural realm. Born, flourished and having seen the heyday of its glory in this ...

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 ...

Gopi Chand Narang, the Urdu literary critic, thinker, and linguist, died in the United States on June 15 at the age of 91. He was a versatile scholar whose research work dominated the Urdu literary ...

Writer, translator and literary historian Rakhshanda Jalil’s critical work on Urdu progressives and other writers is well-recognised as are her translations from Urdu. In her latest book, Love in the ...

Some myths are so deep-rooted that one has to work really hard to make people, especially students face facts. One such myth is about the origin of Urdu. Most of our students subscribe to the view ...

In the rich tapestry of human culture, the interplay of language and religion often weaves intricate patterns of identity and division. This essay embarks on a journey through time and ideology, ...

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 ...