“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 ...

Image of scripts by Subhashish Panigrahi / CC BY-SA 4.0 Everybody agrees that for making a nation strong and firm, some form of cultural unity is required. Language and script of a nation is important ...

Narad Prasad Kimothi ‘Neeras’ There are certain dates in the history of India’s Constitution-making that cannot be viewed ...

DUNCAN Forbes (1798-1868) was a Scottish scholar of oriental languages and literature. Though Forbes penned a number of works on Urdu, Persian, Arabic and Bengali, his better known books are ...

All hell broke loose when Jashn-e- Rekhta, an annual festival devoted to promote Urdu language and culture, put up a poster on its website announcing that its 6th edition would take place from ...

Prime Minster Modi struck just the right note when he addressed Indian Americans in New York’s Madison Square Garden in colloquial Hindustani instead of in the shuddh Sanskritised Hindi that is used ...

Language is something that belongs to its people. However, the same cannot be said of Urdu, which is perceived as one belonging to Muslims, which is far from truth. And ask the same to Geelani Bano, ...