Hyderabad: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath sparked controversy by claiming the Samajwadi Party wants to "teach Urdu and make people maulvis." Such remarks oversimplify Urdu’s role in ...

I was a little shocked when my brother asked me a question he had asked a hundred times before. “Aap kaisi hain?” [How are you?]. Why was I shocked? What was so strange about this everyday query? The ...

Abdul Ghaffar inspects the line of Urdu I have written and then bursts into laughter. “To me, people like you who know how to read and write Urdu in normal script are padhe hue (literate). Not padhe ...

Padullaparthy Venkata Suryanarayana Murthy, known by his pseudonym Mehak Hyderabadi to readers, has been bridging thecultural gap through translations. The former senior journalist with 35 years of ...