The once-thriving world of Urdu-language media in India is today a shadow of its former self. From icons like Qaumi Awaaz and Roznama Rashtriya Sahara to lesser-known weeklies, many publications that ...

BBC News Urdu content is now available on social media platform TikTok. The BBC News Urdu feed (@bbcurdu) provides videos offering perspective and insights into news stories and issues of relevance to ...

ONE balmy morning in March 2011, I chanced upon Dharmendra Singh Deol at a guest house in Lonavala. Dharmendra had a sprawling farmhouse at Lonavala, which had a huge gymnasium. He often came out and ...

PROF Wolfgang Mieder (born 1944) is best known for his work on paremiology. Paroemias means proverbs and paremiology is the study of proverbs. Mieder says that the discussion as to what proverb is and ...

Hyderabad-based Munsif Daily, the largest circulated Urdu daily in the country, published a blank editorial on Thursday in protest against the Revanth Reddy-led Congress government in Telangana for ...

POSTCOLONIAL discourse is not anything new: back in 1978 with the publication of Edward Said’s book Orientalism the postcolonial studies had emerged on the academic scene with a bang. But in Pakistan ...

The development comes after the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation recently scrapped an Urdu Learning Centre project in Byculla, Mumbai, following large-scale protests from the BJP.

Rekhta, the festival that connects the world to Urdu and brings the new generation closer to its beauty, is once again set to welcome Urdu lovers from December 5 to 7 at Baansera Park, Delhi.

We must build a real relationship between students and Urdu. When teachers and school managements value it, children will value it”: COMI president M.S. Farooq ...