Sitting in my university office in Paris, I was recently visited by a young French student wishing to learn the Urdu script. He had traveled to Turkey to study Indian Sufism, and his teachers had told ...

“The Urdu language might just fizzle out in the next 50 years if we don’t take solid steps to promote the language via technology and the internet,” Dr Atash Durrani, a linguist, said at the inaugural ...

We can insert an excerpt of Arabic and Persian text into an Urdu article without any changes in spellings because our alphabet has all the letters of both languages. We can also write most of Hindi ...

Gulzar, the recipient of the Jnanpith Award, expresses optimism about the future of Urdu. He believes that despite the decline of the Urdu script, the language itself is alive and thriving, with Urdu ...

New Delhi, Feb 17 (PTI) Looking back at the evolution of Urdu over a span of eight centuries, popular poet Gulzar today emphasised on the need to revive the script of the language. The award-winning ...

he fact that the alphabet of a language could be a contentious issue may be surprising for a large number of Pakistanis, given that we seldom dive deeply into the linguistics of Urdu or other ...

Padma Bhushan Gulzar is known for his poetry, lyrics and writing. But there is another facet to him ufffd of being a connoisseur of Indian languages. While the 79-year-old's inclination towards Urdu ...

Zeerak Ahmed has spent years in the U.S., working for some of the world’s biggest tech companies. But one thing he has grown frustrated with is how “computing treats non-Latin languages as second ...

Even though social media has acted as a boon for Urdu with growing attraction of youth towards the language through the medium, speakers at the International Urdu Conference at Lucknow University (LU) ...

It’s on a Tuesday evening in January, under a canopy of incandescent bulbs, that I receive my first lesson in Urdu: the difference between alcohol and mirages.I am part of a small mehfil gathered in ...

In post-independence India, Urdu has undergone a strange trajectory both in the language politics and in the socio-cultural realm. Born, flourished and having seen the heyday of its glory in this ...