An excerpt from ‘A Celebration of Memories,’ by Kanwar Mohinder Singh Bedi ‘Sahar’, translated from the Urdu by Kamna Prasad.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Urdu Wikisource launches as a global digital library for Urdu literature, enhancing access to rare texts through ...

Omar Abdullah trying to remove Urdu from J&K's history: PDP leader ...

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 ...

Politics over Urdu in Jammu & Kashmir has intensified following allegations by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ...

A DIALECT is a variety of a language. According to dialectologists, regional dialects are specific to geographical areas. For instance, Vicholi and Sarai are varieties of the Sindhi language spoken in ...

SRINAGAR: A day after the Cyber Police Kashmir registered an FIR against her and several others for circulating an old video ...

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 ...