This past week, the Islam Gymkhana at Marine Lines hosted a unique event. A group of non-Muslim poets were invited to recite naat or panegyric poems about Prophet Muhammad. As part of ‘Prophet for All ...

India’s top court upheld the use of Urdu on public signboards in Maharashtra, rejecting the notion that the language was alien to the country. The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that Urdu and Marathi, ...

Enthusiasts of the Urdu language in India were ecstatic when it was announced in the western state of Maharashtra that Urdu houses would be opened to promote the language, as many urge authorities to ...

Who does Urdu belong to? India's right-wing seems to think it's a foreign import, forced upon by so-called Islamic invaders. The latest fracas happened in April when a reporter from a far-right news ...

In a landmark judgment promoting linguistic inclusivity, the Supreme Court of India has upheld the use of Urdu on the Patur Municipal Council building’s signboard in Maharashtra, dismissing a petition ...

After reading some interesting analyses of the dominance of the Hindi-belt in India, I thought about my work on culture, language, and politics, specifically the decay of Urdu litearure in ...

“LANGUAGE belongs to a community, to a region, to people; and not to a religion. Language is culture. Language is the yardstick to measure the civilisational march of a community and its people. So is ...

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 ...