Urdu
Mushaira: Poetry, tradition & literary legacy
May 8, 2021
“Ghar se masjid hai bahut door, chalo yun kar lein ki ek rote hue bachche ko hasaya jaye,” (Mosque is too far from home to offer prayers, instead, let’s make a crying child smile today), was written by late Uqtida Hasan Nida Fazli, popularly known as just ‘Nida Fazli’, ...
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70 Indian words in the Oxford dictionary
November 4, 2017
Be ready to find words like 'Jugaad' and 'GulabJaamun' in the latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary
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Il était une fois… en Urdu
February 23, 2017
C’est l’histoire d’une langue indienne qui a évolué au fil de l’Histoire et des grandes vagues culturelles, inventant des formes narratives qui suscitent de l’admiration, voire de l’amour. L’Urdu (ou « Ourdou »), une des plus vieilles langues du sous-conti...
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Tales of Urdu
February 14, 2017
It’s the story of an Indian language that evolved with the waves of culture and time, and the storytelling forms that never fail to garner applause and love. Urdu, as we all know it, is richer than we think it is.
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Urdu in the 21st Century
February 15, 2016
While classic poets such as Mir Taqi Mir and Mirza Ghalib of the 17th and 18th century set a benchmark, even in the modern world, Urdu, one of the principal languages of India, is alive and thriving with rich poetry, theatre, qawwali and mushaira. Every word that Gulzar, a...
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