It is 2pm, and a seven-year-old boy sits in an after-school Urdu remedial class, his fingers tracing the unfamiliar curves of the words before him. The sentence on the page seems simple enough: “Yeh ...

POSTCOLONIAL discourse is not anything new: back in 1978 with the publication of Edward Said’s book Orientalism ...

Urdu is known to have originated in the armed forces of the Mughal Empire, and was in no way tied to religion.

The National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language is organizing a massive Urdu Book Fair at Aligarh Muslim University from ...