Rajasthan Urdu teachers allege discriminatory transfers, leaving Jaipur minority-area schools with vacant Urdu posts despite high enrolment; committees formed for limited grievances.

What questions do you pose to a man whose legacy spans eight decades? But Gulzar has a way of holding forth when we meet him at his Mumbai bungalow. Dressed in his signature white kurta-pyjamas, the ...

rdu. The very word evokes a sense of nostalgia, a whisper of poetry, a connection to a rich cultural heritage. More than just a language, it’s an emotion, a shared history, a mother tongue that ...

In Urdu, gum isn't always about something disappearing. Sometimes it's a misplaced key. Sometimes it's your peace of mind. Sometimes it's simply getting so lost in your thoughts that the rest of the ...

Urdu has been a controversial language in Pakistan despite its official and holy status. The Bengalis rejected it way back in the 1940s when Jinnah, advised by a bureaucracy, with imperial moorings ...

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The Supreme Court ordered on Tuesday the implementation of Urdu as the official language at all government departments, Express News reported. A three-member bench of the apex court headed by Chief ...

Barely three months ago, Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) invited applications for its one-year postgraduate diploma in Urdu journalism, offering 30 seats. Now, former students and a ...

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 ...

Concerns have arisen regarding the IIMC's one-year postgraduate diploma in Urdu journalism, as former students and a lawyer ...

But it does not include a biographical article on George Speirs Alexander Ranking (1852-1934), a prominent British orientalist, though Ranking had contributed to the DNB and his article on John T.

Can literary festivals save Urdu, or do Imambaras keep it alive? This essay explores Muharram, oral traditions, and ...