“The Urdu language might just fizzle out in the next 50 years if we don’t take solid steps to promote the language via technology and the internet,” Dr Atash Durrani, a linguist, said at the inaugural ...

India is a country whose wonderful diversity stems from the richness of its past. That includes the Urdu script. Sitting in my university office in Paris, I was recently visited by a young French ...

Gulzar, the recipient of the Jnanpith Award, expresses optimism about the future of Urdu. He believes that despite the decline of the Urdu script, the language itself is alive and thriving, with Urdu ...

New Delhi, Feb 17 (PTI) Looking back at the evolution of Urdu over a span of eight centuries, popular poet Gulzar today emphasised on the need to revive the script of the language. The award-winning ...

The audience cheered and clapped entreating the poets for an encore. At the 56th edition of Bazm-e-Mushaira in the national capital last month, the energy and the evocation of emotions did well to ...

Even though social media has acted as a boon for Urdu with growing attraction of youth towards the language through the medium, speakers at the International Urdu Conference at Lucknow University (LU) ...

It’s on a Tuesday evening in January, under a canopy of incandescent bulbs, that I receive my first lesson in Urdu: the difference between alcohol and mirages.I am part of a small mehfil gathered in ...

Padma Bhushan Gulzar is known for his poetry, lyrics and writing. But there is another facet to him ufffd of being a connoisseur of Indian languages. While the 79-year-old's inclination towards Urdu ...

George Bernard Shaw, a witty fellow as he was, had offered a large sum of money to anybody who would rationalise English spelling rules. Shaw quipped that according to English spelling rules the word ...