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 ...

“The Urdu language might just fizzle out in the next 50 years if we don’t take solid steps to promote the language via technology and the internet,” Dr Atash Durrani, a linguist, said at the inaugural ...

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 ...

Padma Bhushan Gulzar is known for his poetry, lyrics and writing. But there is another facet to him ufffd of being a connoisseur of Indian languages. While the 79-year-old's inclination towards Urdu ...

The audience cheered and clapped entreating the poets for an encore. At the 56th edition of Bazm-e-Mushaira in the national capital last month, the energy and the evocation of emotions did well to ...

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 ...

The four designated stages inside the crowded stadium complex in the heart of the busy capital weren’t enough. So poetry lovers also took to the footpaths and the spaces in between, turning them into ...

It’s on a Tuesday evening in January, under a canopy of incandescent bulbs, that I receive my first lesson in Urdu: the difference between alcohol and mirages.I am part of a small mehfil gathered in ...

PUTRAJAYA, Oct 6 (Bernama) -- Pakistani Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif said the Urdu translation of SCRIPT: For a Better Malaysia reflects the shared values of compassion, respect and progress ...