Urdu
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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
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‘The Story of Eve’: Zehra Nigah’s poetry makes the reader feel heard and understood
Ipshita Mitra
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Sunday book pick: Empathetic and nuanced stories of animal-human conflict in ‘The Mirror of Wonders’
Sayari Debnath
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Translated short stories: An Indian pilot reminisces about her relationship with a Pakistani man
Joginder Paul Haris Qadeer
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‘There was no loss, no gain’: This new book is an essential guide to understanding Ghalib’s couplets
Mirza Ghalib Anisur Rahman
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227 years of Mirza Ghalib: How the mystic poet rethought the concept of ‘man’ in his couplets
Amir Suhail Wani
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2024 Jawad Memorial Prize for Urdu-English Translation: Read the winning poems
Scroll Staff