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 ...

Praises Modi for linguistic respect Correspondent LUCKNOW, Dec 1: Speaking at the Fifth International Urdu Conference held at ...

The audience cheered and clapped entreating the poets for an encore. At the 56th edition of Bazm-e-Mushaira in the national capital last month, the energy and the evocation of emotions did well to ...

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 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 ...

A view of the Supreme Court of India building, an apex judicial body of the country, in New Delhi.(HT_PRINT) The Supreme Court on April 15 upheld the use of Urdu on the signboards of a municipal ...

Nestled in Chandni Chowk, one of the city’s oldest and busiest markets, the Urdu Bazaar seems like a fading relic of Delhi’s rich cultural heritage. The bazaar dedicated to Urdu literature, which once ...

The development comes after the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation recently scrapped an Urdu Learning Centre project in ...

Javed Akhtar challenges the misconception that Urdu is a Muslim language, emphasizing it's region-specific, not religion-specific. During an event, he asserted that Urdu and Hindi were equals until ...