“Urdu language stays as the language of daily communication between communities, but there is a danger that its script could die with the passage of time. We must make our children learn to write Urdu ...

Show returns on August 22 with educational songs covering Urdu, fitness, animals, vegetables and the human body ...

Urdu has been a controversial language in Pakistan despite its official and holy status. The Bengalis rejected it way back in the 1940s when Jinnah, advised by a bureaucracy, with imperial moorings ...

Although Urdu is Pakistan’s national language, an interesting debate that often resurfaces is that the native speakers of Urdu hardly constitute 10 per cent of Pakistan’s population. Prof Fateh ...

If you feel Urdu language needs revival in India, Sanjiv Saraf, the founder of Rekhta foundation counters by saying that the interest in the language is growing robust by every passing day. Read the ...

Gaya: Former IPS officer and Urdu litterateur Masoom Aziz Kazmi on Thursday highlighted the role of the Urdu language, particularly the Urdu press, in India’s freedom struggle that began in 1857.Get ...

Speaking at the convocation of Dacca University in March 1948, the Quaid-e-Azam emphasised that he wanted Urdu to be the sole national language of Pakistan because it had been ‘nurtured by a hundred ...

That the two founding figures of Indian and Pakistani independence were united by a shared love of Urdu speaks eloquently of the language’s rich history. From left, Pandit Jawarharlal Nehru, Vice ...

“Where did this Urdu-speaking white guy come from?” (or, in most Indian contexts, Hindi-speaking) is a question I hear pretty frequently. It’s a legitimate one, and arguably better for everyone ...

The once-thriving world of Urdu-language media in India is today a shadow of its former self. From icons like Qaumi Awaaz and Roznama Rashtriya Sahara to lesser-known weeklies, many publications that ...