Mateen Ashraf, outgoing president of the MANUU Students’ Union, spoke about Urdu’s historical role in shaping India’s ...

The report, by the Syosset-based Asian American Institute for Research and Engagement and Hofstra University's National ...

Whenever I write about Dakhni on social media, there is a barrage of purists asserting that it is just a dialect. Last I ...

After a legal spat between two Urdu literary groups with similar names, a cultural festival scheduled last weekend at the ...

Syed Firdaus Ashraf offers a ready reckoner on Javed Akhtar's great great grandfather Fazl e Haq Khairabadi who fought the ...

There is disquiet among Shinde Sena leaders that they are being cut down to size, even though BJP has denied it. There are ...

Darul Musannefin, an institute established to propagate the rich cultural heritage of Urdu, Arabic and Persian texts through ...

The event was co-organised by the Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, with its Hyderabad convener Anuradha ...

The second day of the Lahore Literary Festival (LLF) 2025 was a remarkable confluence of intellect, storytelling and artistic expression, drawing audiences into profound discussions on history, ...

This isn’t about clinging to the past; it’s about preserving a vital part of our present and future. Urdu is not just a language; it’s a cultural treasure, a repository of our collective memory. It’s ...

Unpacking the politics of language in Pakistan apart from its symbolic and cultural significance as identity markers ...