Much has been written on the origin of Urdu. The word `urdu` itself is Turkish and means `army` or `camp`; our English `horde` is said to be connected with it. The Muslim army stationed in Delhi from ...

Chairman Press Council of India,former judge Supreme Court Of India. Many of you who do not know Urdu have shown an interest in Urdu poetry. So I shall briefly tell you something about its features.

AN online encyclopaedia erroneously claims that Maulana A’shiq Ilahi Merathi was the first person to have translated the holy Quran into Urdu. This is just one example of how misleading information ...

Ghalib was the preeminent Indian Urdu and Persian-language poet during the last years of the Mughal Empire. He used his pen names of Ghalib (means "dominant") and Asad (means "lion"). Most notably, he ...

Writer, translator and literary historian Rakhshanda Jalil’s critical work on Urdu progressives and other writers is well-recognised as are her translations from Urdu. In her latest book, Love in the ...

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 ...