Pakistan is dropping English as its official language and switching to Urdu, a popular language in the Indian subcontinent. The long-rumored change was confirmed by Pakistani Minister of Planning, ...

In 2012, Sanya* joined an institute to learn MS Office. When the teacher was delivering a lecture, she noticed the girl sitting next to her was writing furiously. Her pen danced across the page like ...

Bilingualism, in many cases even multilingualism, being a special quality of most Indians, it comes as no surprise that many scholars working in various English Departments of Indian universities and ...

But Dr Sajid Siddiq Nizami’s just-published research-based book on history of Urdu prose from the earliest times to Ghalib not only dispels all these misconceptions but also makes the reader realise ...

Whatsapp As younger generations shift to Urdu and English, Kashmiri faces social stigma, institutional neglect, and digital marginalisation, raising urgent questions about identity, heritage, and ...

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 ...