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

The Urdu Adab’s special issue on Mir Taqi Mir acknowledges a past mistake of censorship and rectifies it by publishing, for ...

As Bangladesh marks Amar Ekushey today, remembering the martyrs who defied Pakistan’s linguistic oppression in 1952, the ...

Hindi and Urdu are spoken by some 500 million people in India and Pakistan, and throughout the world ... HIND 3441 Screening India: A History of Bollywood Cinema HIND 3811 The Power of the Word: ...

This year marks the 73rd anniversary of the 1952 Language Movement. Drawing on research based on various published books, this 21-part series tells the story of the historic struggle for our mother ...

On January 27, 1952, when the government declared Urdu as the state language of Pakistan, the students ... rally and strongest general strike in the history of the Language Movement in Mymensingh ...