New Delhi, Feb 1 (IANSlife) In an initiative to familiarize Urdu language enthusiasts and budding poetry appreciators with the fundamental vocabulary used in Urdu poetry and conversations, Rekhta ...

And that’s not all: Bruce composes ghazal in Urdu and Persian and has also participated in mushairas. A PhD in Asian cultures and languages, Dr Bruce has profound interest in intellectual history, ...

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 ...

LAHORE: “Please don’t distort Urdu sentences by inserting words from other languages,” Attiya Syed urged participants of the first session of the Second International Urdu Conference at Avari Hotel on ...

If you feel Urdu language needs revival in India, Sanjiv Saraf, the founder of Rekhta foundation counters by saying that the interest in the language is growing robust by every passing day. Read the ...

The ‘Jashn-e-Riwaz’ advertisement which was pulled down by FabIndia after a Twitter backlash is not just symptomatic of growing intolerance and the lack of understanding of the syncretic fabric of ...

While many nations are adopting English, Pakistan is going the opposite way, with the Supreme Court ruling for it to be replaced with Urdu as the official language. Urdu is beautiful, vastly ...

Sanskrit the great language of the Aryans and of their Vedas and epics died its natural death and ceased to be a spoken language, leaving behind a variety of dialects in and around the present region ...