After reading some interesting analyses of the dominance of the Hindi-belt in India, I thought about my work on culture, language, and politics, specifically the decay of Urdu litearure in ...

LITERARY festivals in Lahore and Karachi have become merely rituals — an occasion and a platform for socialising with like-minded people. It seems that these festivals are being organised only as ...

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.

One is quite familiar with the expressions: Urdu speaking, Urdudaan and Urdu medium, literal and colloquial. Urdu-speaking people are not just the ones who natively speak Urdu or the descendants of ...

JABIR Ali Syed (1923-1985) in his book Lisani-o-Aroozi Maqaalaat (National Language Authority, Islamabad, 1989), ...

For the new generation born in Australia, staying connected to their mother tongue and cultural roots is both a challenge and ...

GLOUCESTER TWP. — The Urdu language is spoken by tens of millions of people throughout the world. Most Urdu speakers are in Pakistan and India, but the language also is heard in many other nations, ...

That 300,000 people celebrated Urdu verse during a three-day festival was testament to the peculiar reality of the language in India. The inaugural day of the Urdu poetry festival Jashn-e-Rekhta in ...

HIGH POINT, N.C. — People who speak more than one language earn up to 20 percent more per hour. That's part of the reason dual-language programs are growing in Guilford County Schools. And Allen Jay ...