Urdu Worlds' challenges traditional boundaries, exploring language, identity, intersection of art, cultural heritage ...

When Urdu journalism is celebrating 200 years of its existence, it seems to be perhaps the best opportunity to clear some myths and misconceptions about Urdu. Urdu was born and flourished in India.

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 ...

A new exhibition in Dubai aims to shift perceptions on Urdu, presenting it as more than just a language but as a form of visual art. Expected to run until June 8, the event titled 'Urdu: A Visual ...

That 300,000 people celebrated Urdu verse during a three-day festival was testament to the peculiar reality of the language in India. The inaugural day of the Urdu poetry festival Jashn-e-Rekhta in ...

For years, Urdu on the internet has depended on one name more than most people realize: InPage. If you have [...]Read ...

A UCLA professor aims to bridge the political and cultural divides between students of Indian and Pakistani heritage by bringing them together in a Hindi-Urdu language class. Gyanam Mahajan, an Asian ...

Welcome back to Al-Monitor Dubai. “Urdu Worlds explores how artists manifest their language worlds through their art, and invite audiences to enter these worlds at the level of feeling – without ...