At the Jaipur Literature Festival, Javed Akhtar's exasperated response to a query about Urdu and Sanskrit revealed a lifetime ...

Edited by Rakhshanda Jalil, the anthology contains 16 stories by non-Muslim writers, from the early decades of the 20th ...

Javed Akhtar transformed a routine Q&A into a sweeping meditation on heritage, identity, and the evolution of Indian cinema.

When Urdu journalism is celebrating 200 years of its existence, it seems to be perhaps the best opportunity to clear some myths and misconceptions about Urdu. Urdu was born and flourished in India.

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 ...

The once-thriving world of Urdu-language media in India is today a shadow of its former self. From icons like Qaumi Awaaz and Roznama Rashtriya Sahara to lesser-known weeklies, many publications that ...