It is said that when emotions are put into words, be it love, longing, or loss, the first words come from ‘Urdu zabaan’. And ...

In the introduction to her new book, Love in the Time of Hate: In the Mirror of Urdu, Rakhshanda Jalil writes ... of taking a line or two out of their original contexts and applying them ...

The vocabulary was like nothing I had ever read before so my parents bought me a Ferozul Lughat (popular Urdu dictionary) to help me understand. I fell in love and there was no looking back.

As Pakistan turned to Urdu, the language’s prospects in India appeared bleak, until an unexpected savior emerged. Jawaharlal Nehru’s Faithful Love of Urdu in India In some ways ...

How well they recite their lines can determine their fate—either facing disapproval ... who has been organising mushairas since 2009, says he's passed his love for Urdu to his kids, both of whom are ...

Urdu poetry, fuelled by love and longing, fired up by politics, amplified by Instagram and reimagined by indie bands, is finding new fans What’s your love language? For young people in India ...

Among them was Lala Sri Ram, a learned man from an aristocratic family of Delhi, who was deeply in love with Urdu poetry. Lala Sri Ram began writing Khumkhana-i-Javed, a sort of history of Urdu ...