His books are a mix of Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi and English. These are the many Indias he has known. What keeps the pulp-fiction ...

An American novel described as a study of the unholy catastrophe of marriage, a timely primer on delimitation and much more.

In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court on April 15 upheld the use of Urdu on municipal signage in Maharashtra, describing it as “the finest specimen of Hindustani culture”, as Indian as Hindi or ...

"Urdu is the finest specimen of Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb, or Hindustani tehzeeb," observed the Supreme Court. In today's ...

Change is indeed the only constant, but does it apply to languages as well? In an era where identity politics often ...

A biopic in Kannada was released in 2018. A series called Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule was aired on DD National. The film ...

ALLAMA Iqbal’s first poetic collection in Urdu, Baang-i-Dara, was first published in 1924. But before Iqbal could bring out ...

Best Seller, a cherished 50-year-old bookstore in Srinagar's Lal Chowk, has closed due to declining sales and intense online ...

PREMIUM The bias against Urdu showed its face during the framing ... She tried to strengthen her case with reference to a new law enacted by the Maharashtra legislature during the pendency of ...

Language not religion, but culture, must not become cause for division’ NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Tuesday rejected a plea challenging the use of Urdu ...

In that sense, Vorenberg argues, the Civil War never truly ended. In this diligently researched biography, the graphic novel finds its forebear in the cartoonist Robert Crumb. The book chronicles ...

The Cold War was a war of armaments and ideologies—but it was also a war of words, fought in classrooms, libraries, and on ...