The second season of Netflix's hit series Bridgerton, which started streaming on the OTT platform on Friday, has a major representation of the Indian culture. The series stars Simone Ashley as Kate ...

“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 ...

Radio Ceylon’s use of the hybrid Hindustani was a commercial call but directly defied the British-led decision to bring separate Hindi and Urdu programmes on AIR. Leading this ideological movement was ...

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 ...

Veteran lyricist-screenwriter Javed Akhtar says legendary Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib’s work could only have found meaning in India. “Ghalib was possible only in India. His work wouldn’t have been nurtured ...

MOULVI Abdul Haq, often reverently called Baba-i-Urdu, or Father of Urdu, died on Aug 16, 1961 — exactly 60 years ago. Having been made the secretary of Anjuman Taraqqi-i-Urdu (ATU) in 1912, Abdul Haq ...