The language called Urdu is the life of Hindustan. Prologue: A Flight, a Word, a Realization It was while flying over the Black Sea that I noticed a town on the Turkish coast—Ordu. The name struck me.

The neglect of the Urdu language in Pakistani society is deeply concerning and must be addressed before its decline becomes irreversible. Urdu is one of the most lyrical and culturally rich languages ...

Now a new, 700-page, collection titled Muheet-ul-Amsaal: Kahavaton Aur Maqoolon ka Majmoo’a has just come out. Compiled by Wasiullah Khokhar and published by Lahore’s Daarun Navaadir, it is the ...

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 ...

The Maharashtra Urdu Sahitya Academy celebrates its 50th anniversary with Bahar-e-Urdu, a three-day cultural event in Mumbai featuring Urdu literature, art, and music. Highlights include seminars, ...

Savarkar narrative, citing his early endorsement of the two-nation theory and anti-Muslim rhetoric ahead of Partition ...

Every UCLA student has heard numerous boasts about UCLA’s diversity, but few have seen concrete examples of intergroup communication and bonding. Thus, I am greatly pleased to announce that there is ...

A UCLA professor aims to bridge the political and cultural divides between students of Indian and Pakistani heritage by bringing them together in a Hindi-Urdu language class. Gyanam Mahajan, an Asian ...

Language is not religion and to consider Urdu as a language of Muslims is a "pitiable digression" from reality and unity in diversity, the Supreme Court has said while rejecting a petition challenging ...