Sitting in my university office in Paris, I was recently visited by a young French student wishing to learn the Urdu script. He had traveled to Turkey to study Indian Sufism, and his teachers had told ...

In our democracy, people express their views aggressively, which sometimes creates polarisation. But that is not necessarily ...

Union minister Kiren Rijiju on Wednesday described Urdu as "the most beautiful language in the world" and said harmony ...

Sudha Pai in 2002 stated, “If a language is not characterised by political neutrality, it too often becomes the tool by which this language group seeks to extend its domination over the minority ...

The practice of naming roads and streets seems to be a fairly recent development. In most medieval towns, localities were identified by the name of resident communities or through the crafts practiced ...