“My grandmother said one learns English to woo a girl but when there’s heartbreak, you come back to Urdu,” shares Devyesh Tripathi, a lawyer practising at the Delhi High Court. The Urdu enthusiast ...

India is a country whose wonderful diversity stems from the richness of its past. That includes the Urdu script. Extract from a Hindustani textbook used at INALCO, Paris in 1833. Credit: Langues’O ...

Arjun Pawar has penned 10 essays on famous Urdu poets and writers and is now planning to present them in a podcast format. While some of his literary-inclined classmates and friends read novelist Jane ...

As far as age goes, Sukti Sarkar and Bibhabori Bhattacharyya are 50 years apart. While Ms. Sarkar is a retired banker, Bibhabori is only 14 years old but what binds these two Bengalis is their love ...

Urdu remains the language of poetry that accumulates aashiqs at every adaa, but Gen Z is reclaiming it as a connection to their pre-Partition heritage Akshita Nagpal’s move from Delhi to Versova in ...

“Where did this Urdu-speaking white guy come from?” (or, in most Indian contexts, Hindi-speaking) is a question I hear pretty frequently. It’s a legitimate one, and arguably better for everyone ...

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 ...

Ramish Safa, a business-graduate-turned-digital-artist, has recently come up with an interesting way to make learning Urdu fun. Fusing pop and desi culture, Safa explains the Urdu alphabet using ...

Priceless pieces of Urdu poetry and books on art, literature and history confined to dark corners of private homes and public libraries have found a new home - all 1,00,000 of them digitised and ready ...

Why has this heartbeat become a cause of heart burn? Why is it in exile in its own country? These lines by poet Manzar Bhopali encapsulate the uncertainty Urdu, a part of the Hindostani language ...