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.
Stories by Non-Muslim Urdu Writers, Rakhshanda Jalil offers an incisive intervention in the cultural and linguistic politics of South Asia. Through a carefully curated selection of 16 short ...
Apple has added full Urdu language support in iOS 26, letting iPhone and iPad users in Pakistan set Urdu as their system ...
Urdu is known to have originated in the armed forces of the Mughal Empire, and was in no way tied to religion.
After reading some interesting analyses of the dominance of the Hindi-belt in India, I thought about my work on culture, language, and politics, specifically the decay of Urdu litearure in ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- From Libya to Bahrain to Egypt, social media sites like Twitter and Facebook continue to play a substantial role in the political unrest of the region, but its major languages remain ...
Extract from a Hindustani textbook used at INALCO, Paris in 1833. Credit: Langues’O 1795-1995 Subscribe for ads-free reading Sitting in my university office in Paris, I was recently visited by a young ...
Thirty-five years after Uttar Pradesh (UP) adopted Urdu as its second official language, chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s speech in the state assembly has revived the contentious issue over the ...
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