The language called Urdu is the life of Hindustan. Prologue: A Flight, a Word, a Realization It was while flying over the Black Sea that I noticed a town on the Turkish coast—Ordu. The name struck me.

rdu. The very word evokes a sense of nostalgia, a whisper of poetry, a connection to a rich cultural heritage. More than just a language, it’s an emotion, a shared history, a mother tongue that ...

New Delhi: A lesson on the evolution of Urdu is not the sort of session that usually electrifies a crowd. But on Day 2 of Jashn-e-Rekhta, poet and theatre director Danish Husain turned it into a ...

In a world tearing itself apart over who belongs, language offers us a chance to remember how not to fracture and that we are ...