Urdu
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‘The Book of Death’: Khalid Jawed’s novella ruminates on the futility of life and the writer’s role
Sonakshi Srivastava
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Translated fiction: A boy sees a dragon slipping into his bedroom – an image he’ll never forget
Siddique Alam Jaideep Pandey
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Fiction: A researcher devoted to ancient manuscripts sets out to decipher a madman’s diary
Khalid Jawed A Naseeb Khan
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‘Wayward Verses’: Sanjiv Saraf’s anthology brings Urdu poetry beyond unrequited love
Shafey Kidwai
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From colonial Lahore, a flashback to when Urdu, Persian and Sanskrit were taught side-by-side
Vipin Krishna
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Why Kashmir is worried about the sidelining of Urdu
Safwat Zargar
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Short stories by Saadat Hasan Manto: A daughter’s return reveals the violent price of the Partition
Saadat Hasan Manto Sonakshi Gupta
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Urdu short story: ‘What kind of nationalism is it to live in India and have an Arabic name?’
Kanhaiyalal Kapoor Rakhshanda Jalil
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Remembering CM Naim (1936-2025): The conscience keeper of Urdu, who wrote fearlessly of its politics
Danish Khan
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‘A powerful urge to be useful to other women’: What Ashrafunnisa Begum’s life revealed to CM Naim
Githa Hariharan
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The paradox of English: It is both a foreign tongue and a deeply embedded Indian language
Hasnain Naqvi
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Rajasthan police told to remove Urdu, Persian words from official documents, replace them with Hindi
Scroll Staff
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BJP seeks to drop Urdu from J&K recruitment exam, NC and PDP allege cultural erasure
Scroll Staff
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‘I have seen time / Gathering in a contained space’: Gulzar writes to Rumi, Pancham, and friends
Gulzar Sathya Saran
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Supreme Court verdict allowing Urdu signage reaffirms that India is a multilingual democracy
John Simte
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‘Urdu not alien to India’: SC upholds use of language on municipal signboard in Maharashtra
Scroll Staff
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Translated short fiction: Malka Begum is not impressed by what she sees on a trip to Delhi
Rashid Jahan Rakhshanda Jalil
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Row in Rajasthan after state minister claims Urdu teachers got jobs using fake degrees
Scroll Staff
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Born on this day: Remembering Faiz Ahmad Faiz and his poetry of passion
Amir Suhail Wani
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The cost of lost integrity in Osama Siddique’s ‘Ghuroob-e-Shehr Ka Waqt’ and ‘Snuffing Out the Moon’
Nikhil Kumar