URDU is passing through one of the strangest phases of its life these days. A section of the society, especially the new generation who doesn't give it a damn, seems too indifferent to care for the ...

“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, hoard, etc.” ...

KARACHI: Urdu’s first online thesaurus was recently launched and in no time it has attracted the attention of many who are usually at a loss for words while communicating in the language they hold so ...

One is quite familiar with the expressions: Urdu speaking, Urdudaan and Urdu medium, literal and colloquial. Urdu-speaking people are not just the ones who natively speak Urdu or the descendants of ...

Urdu poetry is often considered synonymous with love. Various shades of love, ranging from physical to metaphysical; all the nuances of the experience of love, ranging from disappointment to ...

There are more than five crore Indians who speak Urdu, as per the last census, but this poetic language, which is one of the country’s official languages, experienced a 1.5 per cent drop since 2001.

The world has become a multi-lingual environment and therefore we should stop yearning for a controlled monolingual dream of the past and look towards a more diverse, vibrant and international future ...