How a global organisation of volunteers is kindling love for Urdu

Abdullah Zahid

· Jun 10, 2024 · 11:30 am

How Urdu scholar Gopi Chand Narang (1931-2022) advocated for the language as a ‘civilisational gain’

Rizwan Ahmad

· Jun 21, 2022 · 08:30 am

Can Urdu regain its place in India’s linguistic landscape? Yes, if it is treated as a mother tongue

Mahtab Alam

· Apr 23, 2020 · 08:30 am

How Pakistani novelist and translator Musharraf Ali Farooqi built his Urdu thesaurus for the world

Musharraf Ali Farooqi

· Nov 10, 2019 · 12:30 pm

‘Mogambo prasann hua’: A Facebook page tries to show how much poorer the world would be without Urdu

Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri

· Aug 24, 2017 · 11:30 am

Seventy years on, a fraught question still troubles Pakistan: Should Urdu be its official language?

Ali Raj

· May 27, 2017 · 11:30 am

It's Mother Language Day. Which 'mother language' did India's lawmakers want after Independence?

Devapriya Roy

· Feb 21, 2017 · 06:30 pm

Imposing an arbitrary national language would only divide Pakistan further

Arthur Dudney, The Conversation

· Sep 14, 2016 · 03:30 pm

The death of Urdu in India is greatly exaggerated – the language is actually thriving

Shoaib Daniyal

· Jun 01, 2016 · 08:00 am