Three decades ago, Shah Rukh Khan grooved to Satrangi Re in Dil Se, but the song was more than just a memorable Bollywood ...

Bengaluru: The Karnataka government's reported plan to organise the first official ‘Urdu Habba’ on the grand steps of Vidhana ...

What questions do you pose to a man whose legacy spans eight decades? But Gulzar has a way of holding forth when we meet him at his Mumbai bungalow. Dressed in his signature white kurta-pyjamas, the ...

A new release featuring British pop star Zayn Malik singing in Urdu has gone viral in South Asia, and it's giving fans in the West a taste of Pakistani music. ONE DIRECTION: (Singing) Baby, you light ...

Who does Urdu belong to? India's right-wing seems to think it's a foreign import, forced upon by so-called Islamic invaders. The latest fracas happened in April when a reporter from a far-right news ...

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 ...

A view of the Supreme Court of India building, an apex judicial body of the country, in New Delhi.(HT_PRINT) The Supreme Court on April 15 upheld the use of Urdu on the signboards of a municipal ...

Amid the growing debate over languages both in politics and education, senior BJP leader and former Union Minister for Human Resource Development (HRD), Murli Manohar Joshi, on Thursday (July 2, 2026) ...

Nazir Ahmad Khan on Friday expressed concern over the erosion of the Urdu language, alleging that it was “eroded under a ...