EVERY language changes over the centuries — phonologically, lexically and grammatically — and the process is natural. But language reform differs from linguistic change, as change is natural but ...

POET and prose writer Insha Allah Khan Insha (1752-1817) was a genius: he knew Urdu, Hindi, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Sanskrit, Punjabi, Kashmiri, Bengali and Marathi and wrote in five of these ...

Once India’s common language, Urdu is now boxed as Muslim identity. Dr Rakhshanda Jalil’s anthology reclaims it as India’s shared, many-voiced, culturally composite inheritance.

The school helps children to read, write and understand the Urdu language spoken primarily by Pakistani and Indian communities in Australia. Studying in Year 4 at the Lakemba Public School, Ayesha ...

That 300,000 people celebrated Urdu verse during a three-day festival was testament to the peculiar reality of the language in India. The inaugural day of the Urdu poetry festival Jashn-e-Rekhta in ...