An anthology of Urdu short stories attempts to bust stereotypes around who writes in Urdu, and for whom. Editor Rakshanda ...

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

At the launch of literary historian Rakhshanda Jalil's new book 'Whose Urdu Is It Anyway? Stories by Non-Muslim Urdu Writers' ...

Zeerak Ahmed has spent years in the U.S., working for some of the world’s biggest tech companies. But one thing he has grown frustrated with is how “computing treats non-Latin languages as second ...

As we celebrate Ganesh Chaturthi, it is worth remembering that the deity was once invoked in Urdu couplets. Nazeer Akbarabadi ...

Patiala: The Punjab languages department has announced the Best Hindi and Urdu Book Awards for 2025. These awards are part of ...

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 ...

After reading some interesting analyses of the dominance of the Hindi-belt in India, I thought about my work on culture, language, and politics, specifically the decay of Urdu litearure in post ...

Javed Akhtar shares his views on Urdu language; says, “Urdu has not come from any other place, it is our own language” Bollywood News: Latest Bollywood News, Bollywood News Today, Bollywood ...