A village of Meenas in Rajasthan has discovered an unlikely but effective route to government jobs. It is through Urdu.

KARACHI: The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mr Liaquat Ali Khan … has, it is learnt … issued orders for the use of the Urdu script for giving instructions to the personnel of armed forces and ...

Does a ‘reconsideration’ of Gandhi confirm the considerations or bring out new perspectives? Shubham Sharma reviews Gandhi ...

Discover some surprising facts about Urdu, including how much it has in common with other languages. Also available in Urdu with audio.

Bangladesh, then East Pakistan, saw the Bangla language movement in 1952 against the imposition of Urdu by Pakistan. Five ...

The speech by Mahatma Gandhi was delivered on the occasion of the opening of the Banaras Hindu University on February 4, 1916 ...

are we never to speak again of the many Hindus who have written in Urdu or that some of our earliest Hindi manuscripts are in Perso-Arabic script?" At the same time, languages are also markers of ...

The initiative by SALT reflects the growing recognition of translation as a specialist field. While the West has a long ...

Under the director of the College, John Barthowick Gilchrist, reading materials were prepared for the trainees in two different scripts: For Muslims, Urdu written in Persian script was used ...

The language barrier between me and everyone else created tension and discomfort. Seeing other students make friends and bond ...