I thought that Urdu and Hindi were analogous to some extent -- a totally misread perspective, which changed when I did a bit ...
The author of ‘Kalkatta Chronicles’ and ‘Kolkata Classics’ gives insight into her debut foray into Hindustani poetry ...
The Maharashtra State Minority Commission is proposing that all Urdu-medium schools in the state transition to semi-English. Additionally, they are suggesting mandatory Marathi language instruction.
Karachi, a megacity shrugging off its old definition as a den of violent crime, is Pakistan's incubator for talent in ...
Hobson-Jobson explains Dharna Dena or Baithna has originated from the Sanskrit verb ‘Dhri’ which means to hold. The question ...
Who is Banu Mushtaq? Banu Mushtaq is a celebrated writer, activist, and lawyer from Karnataka, India. She emerged from the ...
Whenever I write about Dakhni on social media, there is a barrage of purists asserting that it is just a dialect. Last I ...
At first it was agonizing, she says, but over time, as more words and recollections returned ... Wherever she was, she kept ...
NASTA’LEEQ, also spelt nastaliq, is considered the most beautiful of all hands used in Persian and Urdu calligraphy. But ...
The author of this unique collection of new verses, opening one side in Hindi and the other in Urdu, is Salman Akhtar—an Indian-American psychoanalyst practising in the United States ...
English was removed as an official language after a long struggle… It is not just Urdu that I demanded (among languages for ...
In Nizamuddin dargah’s shadow, young rappers are giving Sufi culture a hip-hop spin. “Qawwali doesn’t let us say what we want ...