Islam was the principal identity symbol of the Indian Muslims who got mobilised to give a united opposition to the Hindu majority to obtain maximum political and economic advantages and then, under ...

Javed Akhtar challenges the misconception that Urdu is a Muslim language, emphasizing it's region-specific, not religion-specific. During an event, he asserted that Urdu and Hindi were equals until ...

Bilingualism, in many cases even multilingualism, being a special quality of most Indians, it comes as no surprise that many scholars working in various English Departments of Indian universities and ...

Nazneen Ansari, a translator in Varanasi, has undertaken the task to translate Tulsidas' Ramcharitmanas to Urdu. "Here I am translating the Ayodhya Kaand of Ramcharitmanas into Urdu so that people in ...

A still from the play Lal Qile Ka Akhri Mushaira featuring actor Tom Alter (centre) and others. The Bhiwandi Mushaira scheduled today will have all the non-Muslim poets MUMBAI: Despite the doomsayers' ...

Listen details of this year Salam Fest 2018 shared by Ayesha Bux. Talking to SBS URDU, she said that SalamFest is establishing itself as a unique experience of artistic and cultural expression for all ...

Kanpur: In a remarkable example of humanity and religious harmony, a Muslim woman has written Ramayana in Urdu. Setting an example of an inter-community accord, Dr Mahi Talat Siddiqui, a resident of ...

The abrogation of Article 370 in Kashmir marked the end of Urdu as the only official language, a status it enjoyed for 131 years. Making any language official is always complex and political in nature ...

New Delhi: The Delhi University has termed the controversial omission of "Urdu" and the inclusion of "Muslim" as a mother tongue in its undergraduate admission form as an "inadvertent error", but ...