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.
Union Minister for Minority Affairs Kiren Rijiju, on Wednesday (October 29, 2025), termed Urdu “the most beautiful language in the world”. Speaking at the 105th foundation day of the Jamia Milia ...
If you have been on social media, you might have come across videos where two people compare certain words in their respective languages, highlighting the similarities or differences in the names of ...
Half-ton, three-quarter-ton and one-ton are informal classifications for pickup trucks and SUVs based on their payload capacities. The classifications roughly correspond to light-duty, heavy-duty and ...
Newly updated curricula for Islamiat, Pakistan Studies, and Urdu have been launched for O-Level students in Pakistan, bringing significant changes to the content and structure of these important ...
The popular notion goes that Urdu is to Muslims what Hindi is to Hindus, and yet this understanding could not have been further from the truth. A large body of historical and literary research ...
Nagma Rehman has a lament in her retired life. Ms. Rehman, who retired a year ago as Urdu teacher at the Baxibagh, Government Higher Secondary School in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, says her school has ...
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Once the lingua franca of North India, spoken in marketplaces, courts, and homes across caste and creed, Urdu today is too often boxed into a single identity — the language of Indian Muslims. But ...
In a passionate defense of Urdu’s rich heritage and its rightful place as a language of India’s heart, in an article shared on his Facebook wall, former Supreme Court Justice Markandey Katju delves ...
On July 14, the Central Administrative Tribunal ruled that it would no longer be mandatory for an applicant to the post of a naib tehsildar in Jammu and Kashmir to know Urdu. To insist on it, the ...
Urdu scholar and translator Rakshanda Jalil’s new collection Whose Urdu is it Anyway? is linked by one theme: to challenge the notion that Urdu is the language of Muslim writers alone, especially in a ...