When Urdu journalism is celebrating 200 years of its existence, it seems to be perhaps the best opportunity to clear some myths and misconceptions about Urdu. Urdu was born and flourished in India.

New Delhi: A lesson on the evolution of Urdu is not the sort of session that usually electrifies a crowd. But on Day 2 of Jashn-e-Rekhta, poet and theatre director Danish Husain turned it into a ...

Sitting in my university office in Paris, I was recently visited by a young French student wishing to learn the Urdu script. He had traveled to Turkey to study Indian Sufism, and his teachers had told ...

In a world tearing itself apart over who belongs, language offers us a chance to remember how not to fracture and that we are ...