In her new book, ‘Whose Urdu is it Anyway?’, Rakshanda Jalil has translated into English 16 stories by non-Muslim writers who ...

The once-thriving world of Urdu-language media in India is today a shadow of its former self. From icons like Qaumi Awaaz and ...

More than a century ago, in colonial Lahore, a different approach to language took shape. The Oriental College, founded in ...

Independence Day 2025 is here! Enjoy the best patriotic shayari in Hindi, Urdu and English to celebrate 15 August with pride ...

The 64th death anniversary of Maulvi Abdul Haq famously known as Baba-e-Urdu is being observed today (Saturday). Born in 1870 ...

The Department of Urdu, Aligarh Muslim University, organised a lecture and cultural programme on the theme 'The Role of Urdu ...

ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - The 64th death anniversary of legendary Urdu writer and the linguist Maulvi Abdul Haq famously known as Baba-e-Urdu is being observed today (Saturday).

“The prejudice against Urdu stems from the misconception that Urdu is alien to India. This opinion, we’re afraid, is incorrect as Urdu, like Marathi and Hindi, is an Indo-Aryan language.

Urdu is spoken by roughly 230 million people globally—largely in Pakistan and India, as well as among diaspora communities around the world.

The Urdu language was born in northern India during the Mughal rule. Linguists and historians say Urdu and Hindi originally developed from Khadi Boli, a dialect of the Delhi region, and Prakrit.

“Urdu is a mixture of Persian, Arabic and Turkish words formed with the intermingling of invading Muslim armies and local Hindi-speaking Hindus. It’s a Turkish word which means Army camp ...