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 ...

Born on Jan 25, 1962, in district of Layyah (also spelt Leiyah), Punjab, Dr Muzzammil Husain is an academic, critic and researcher known for his works on Urdu and Seraiki literatures. He has to his ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hyderabad-based Urdu weekly Gawah has completed 27 years, continuing its print and digital presence despite industry ...

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 ...

Unlike poet Josh Malihabadi, who was conferred the Padma Bhushan, Jaun Elia didn’t gain recognition in India or Pakistan.

Hyderabad: Urdu is a Lashkari (mixed dialect). It is a Persianised standard register of Hindustani language. It has 30 consonants, 20 vowels, two diphthongs; non-tonal; stress being on the penultimate ...

Urdu, like other languages of the world, has been classified by linguists on the basis of its morphological and syntactical features. Urdu nouns and adjective can have a variety of origins, such as ...

That Urdu is spoken by a large number of people in Bengaluru is well known but Urdu literature and theatre is also thriving in the city Her lips were painted black, she wore distressed denims, her ...

Asha Bhosle posthumously receives the Mohsin-e-Urdu Award for her contribution to Urdu music, as tributes pour in celebrating ...

One does not know the fate of the furniture and books at the Urdu Markaz locked since July 2016. But the people who nurtured ...