The fact that Nitish Kumar and Tejashwi Yadav themselves handed out 183 appointment letters to newly-recruited Urdu translators and stenographers indicates their willingness to strike a contrast to communal …
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My Mother Does Not Know Urdu
A poem on the politics of language, written in light of the recent fracas created by a Sudarshan news reporter over the packaging of a Haldiram product.
On SRK, Bollywood’s Love of Urdu and What It Means To Be a ‘Deewana’ in New India
The attacks on Khan and Urdu are not set apart from one another, but shed light on the systematic machinery of hate and exclusion currently on display.
The Burden of Urdu Must Be Shared
The pseudo-representation of Urdu in popular culture is more harmful than erasure itself. The very romanticisation of Urdu has become its anathema.
Papaji’s Urdu Letters: Memories From My Childhood
My grandfather, Papaji, mostly spoke in Punjabi, but Urdu's strong influence was visible in his spoken Punjabi.
The Mazhab of Art: Must Language Have a Religion Too?
Why a two-day Hindustani writing workshop in Jaipur was cancelled.
My Love-Hate Relationship With Urdu, English and Hindi
To give up any of these languages will be like giving away a large part of myself.
Why the Urdu Language Is Fading Away From Bollywood
The number of people speaking Urdu and those interested in learning the language has decreased, and this has, in turn, impacted the entertainment industry as well.