When Urdu journalism is celebrating 200 years of its existence, it seems to be perhaps the best opportunity to clear some myths and misconceptions about Urdu. Urdu was born and flourished in India.

An awareness program highlights the importance of promoting Urdu among youth for academic and career opportunities.

Urdu scholar and translator Rakshanda Jalil’s new collection Whose Urdu is it Anyway? is linked by one theme: to challenge the notion that Urdu is the language of Muslim writers alone, especially in a ...

She has Sri Lankan roots, grew up in Bahrain and is now loving her life in Bollywood. Starlet Jacqueline Fernandez says she has embraced everything that Mumbai has to offer and now she has a keen ...

One is quite familiar with the expressions: Urdu speaking, Urdudaan and Urdu medium, literal and colloquial. Urdu-speaking people are not just the ones who natively speak Urdu or the descendants of ...