Urdu scholar and translator Rakshanda Jalil’s new collection Whose Urdu is it Anyway? is linked by one theme: to challenge the notion that Urdu is the language of Muslim writers alone, especially in a ...

Urdu is known to have originated in the armed forces of the Mughal Empire, and was in no way tied to religion.

The Experimental College's popular class in the Hindi/Urdu languages is making a return appearance this semester after an intensive effort from members of the South Asian Political Action Committee ...

Javed Akhtar challenges the misconception that Urdu is a Muslim language, emphasizing it's region-specific, not religion-specific. During an event, he asserted that Urdu and Hindi were equals until ...