The Express TribuneOpinion

Urdu Worlds: beyond language, toward heterotopia

Urdu Worlds' challenges traditional boundaries, exploring language, identity, intersection of art, cultural heritage ...
CounterPunch

The Decay of the Urdu Language and Its Literature and Culture in Post-Partition India is an Effect of the Imposition of the Singular Definition of Nation

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 ...
The Diplomat

Why the Urdu Script Is Crucial for India’s Cultural Diversity

Sitting in my university office in Paris, I was recently visited by a young French student wishing to learn the Urdu script. He had traveled to Turkey to study Indian Sufism, and his teachers had told ...
The New York Times

Where Romantic Poetry in a Fading Language Draws Stadium Crowds

That 300,000 people celebrated Urdu verse during a three-day festival was testament to the peculiar reality of the language in India. The inaugural day of the Urdu poetry festival Jashn-e-Rekhta in ...
Business Recorder

Committee to seek report on implementation of Urdu as official language

ISLAMABAD: Cabinet Ministerial Committee on Implementation of Urdu Language in Government Departments on Tuesday decided to seek report of implementation of Urdu as official language from all the ...