The Ryder Cup only happens once every two years, which makes the event even more special for fans. It's an opportunity for the best United States golfers to team up against the top European golfers in ...

Nagma Rehman has a lament in her retired life. Ms. Rehman, who retired a year ago as Urdu teacher at the Baxibagh, Government Higher Secondary School in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, says her school has ...

Once the lingua franca of North India, spoken in marketplaces, courts, and homes across caste and creed, Urdu today is too often boxed into a single identity — the language of Indian Muslims. But ...

On July 14, the Central Administrative Tribunal ruled that it would no longer be mandatory for an applicant to the post of a naib tehsildar in Jammu and Kashmir to know Urdu. To insist on it, the ...

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 ...

Contrary to the current perception that Urdu is the language of Muslims alone, reality tells a different story. Some of the greatest non-Muslim writers, like Munshi Premchand, wrote in both Hindi and ...

Sudha Pai in 2002 stated, “If a language is not characterised by political neutrality, it too often becomes the tool by which this language group seeks to extend its domination over the minority ...

Change is indeed the only constant, but does it apply to languages as well? In an era where identity politics often masquerades as linguistic preservation, the Supreme Court’s verdict in Mrs.

The Supreme Court has emphasized that India's linguistic diversity should be celebrated, not be a cause for division. The court upheld the use of Urdu, alongside Marathi, on a signboard in Maharashtra ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the use of Urdu language on the signboard of a municipal council building in Maharashtra's Akola district. The bench said saying that "Urdu the finest specimen of ...

Urdu is born in this land, the Supreme Court has said while describing it as the finest specimen of 'Ganga Jamuni tahzeeb' and stating that considering it a language of Muslims is a "pitiable ...