Secondly, Urdu is an entirely independent language, adds Insha, and, therefore, insisting on using the phonology or grammar of source languages, such as Arabic or Persian, for Urdu words is ...

Now this long history has been captured in a book titled Urdu Mein Islaah-e-Zaban Ki Rivayet, or the tradition of language reform in Urdu.

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 ...

Once India’s common language, Urdu is now boxed as Muslim identity. Dr Rakhshanda Jalil’s anthology reclaims it as India’s ...

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 ...

At this festival of Urdu love poems in New Delhi, the poets are lauded like pop stars, even though the language itself has been stigmatised ...