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 ...

Who does Urdu belong to? India's right-wing seems to think it's a foreign import, forced upon by so-called Islamic invaders. The latest fracas happened in April when a reporter from a far-right news ...

Urdu is a living language which, according to estimates, is spoken by close to 100 million people around the world. It is the official language of Pakistan, a status which it shares with English. It ...

The world's largest Urdu language literary festival, Jashn-e-Rekhta (celebration of the Rekhta, a mixed dialect of Hindustani and Urdu) is coming to Dubai on January 27 and 28 to regale lovers of Urdu ...