When Urdu journalism is celebrating 200 years of its existence, it seems to be perhaps the best opportunity to clear some myths and misconceptions about Urdu. Urdu was born and flourished in India.

The once-thriving world of Urdu-language media in India is today a shadow of its former self. From icons like Qaumi Awaaz and Roznama Rashtriya Sahara to lesser-known weeklies, many publications that ...

Urdu scholar and translator Rakshanda Jalil’s new collection Whose Urdu is it Anyway? is linked by one theme: to challenge the notion that Urdu is the language of Muslim writers alone, especially in a ...

Every UCLA student has heard numerous boasts about UCLA’s diversity, but few have seen concrete examples of intergroup communication and bonding. Thus, I am greatly pleased to announce that there is ...

Urdu remains the language of poetry that accumulates aashiqs at every adaa, but Gen Z is reclaiming it as a connection to their pre-Partition heritage Akshita Nagpal’s move from Delhi to Versova in ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- From Libya to Bahrain to Egypt, social media sites like Twitter and Facebook continue to play a substantial role in the political unrest of the region, but its major languages remain ...

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 ...

The Supreme Court has affirmed the use of Urdu on the signboard of Patur Municipal Council in Maharashtra, emphasizing that language should not be a cause of division. The court highlighted Urdu's ...

The Indian Supreme Court recently upheld the use of Urdu on the signboard of a municipal council building in Maharashtra, in a significant ruling emphasising linguistic and cultural diversity in the ...