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 ...
Urdu is known to have originated in the armed forces of the Mughal Empire, and was in no way tied to religion.
Apple has added full Urdu language support in iOS 26, letting iPhone and iPad users in Pakistan set Urdu as their system ...
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 ...
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 ...
Language debates are unfolding across the country, particularly in the southern states, where language is deeply intertwined with regional identity, cultural heritage, and pride. Supreme Court bench ...
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