Urdu declared the second official language in Telangana

Scroll Staff

· Nov 10, 2017 · 04:43 pm

This is the book that lovers of Urdu literature needed, to understand its history

Rana Safvi

· Sep 09, 2017 · 06:30 pm

‘The Pose’: Anwer Khan’s short story is one of the 25 greatest in Urdu, says an anthologist

Anwer Khan

· Aug 27, 2017 · 08:30 am

Born on India’s future Independence Day, Ismat Chughtai wrote of the world she saw, not aspired to

Urvashi Bahuguna

· Aug 15, 2017 · 08:30 am

Why it is impossible to think of Urdu poetry without thinking of India’s journey to (and after) 1947

Rakhshanda Jalil

· Aug 15, 2017 · 05:30 am

Pragmatism, Marxism, and a Western orientation: The three nodes of the Progressive Writers’ Movement

Syed Nomanul Haq

· Jul 16, 2017 · 09:30 pm

In the narrow lanes of Old Delhi, a unique and flavoursome dialect of Urdu is going extinct

Malini Nair

· Jun 26, 2017 · 11:30 am

Between Patriotism, Partition and Pakistan, here’s how Faiz Ahmed Faiz became a poet

Baran Farooqi

· Jun 13, 2017 · 08:30 am

Pem Nem: A 16th-century Urdu romance goes online

Nur Sobers-Khan

· Jun 11, 2017 · 08:30 pm

Video: This cool music lesson is a fine beginning to the month of Ramzan

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· May 28, 2017 · 10:00 am

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

Ali Raj

· May 27, 2017 · 11:30 am

Rajasthan’s school mergers have dealt a blow to Urdu teaching, and its speakers allege a conspiracy

Shreya Roy Chowdhury

· May 04, 2017 · 09:00 am

Allow students to write the NEET in Urdu, among other languages: Supreme Court tells Centre

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· Apr 13, 2017 · 03:23 pm

Neet: Centre is willing to consider conducting the entrance test in Urdu from next year

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· Mar 10, 2017 · 04:04 pm

Away from clichéd pop imagination, Urdu is reclaiming its space (sometimes via other languages)

Rakhshanda Jalil

· Feb 25, 2017 · 08:30 am

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

Devapriya Roy

· Feb 21, 2017 · 06:30 pm

Urdu poet Bekal Utsahi embodied the true (and endangered) Ganga-Jamni culture of India

Harish Trivedi

· Dec 18, 2016 · 07:00 am

Urdu is a homeless language in India. The Vice-President tells us how to change that

M Hamid Ansari

· Sep 21, 2016 · 08:30 am

Imposing an arbitrary national language would only divide Pakistan further

Arthur Dudney, The Conversation

· Sep 14, 2016 · 03:30 pm

'We, as a nation, clearly do not understand the concept of freedom of expression'

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· Jun 05, 2016 · 09:30 pm