Urdu

Naseeruddin Shah's rant in his latest opinion column in the Indian Express shows his reflex to interpret every personal slight through the lens of ideological victimhood.

While language chauvinists are fighting against so called ‘Hindi imposition’ in various states, they ignore the fact that Urdu is the real ‘North Indian imposition’, a language imposed by Mughal tyrants for their own benefit

"Urdu is the finest specimen of Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb," an SC bench comprising of Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia went into a florid rhetoric while delivering verdict in Akola signage case.

Describing Urdu as the best example of Ganga-Jamuni or Hindustani Tehzeeb, the Supreme Court said that language is part of the culture and it should not become a reason to divide people.

Rajasthan High Court has ordered that Nikah-Namas issued during marriage as per Islamic traditions must be bilingual, and they can’t be in Urdu only.

Bangladesh observed the death anniversary of Jinnah with speakers calling him the creator and father of Bangladesh

In February 2012, Mamata Banerjee made Urdu the second language in areas of West Bengal where the population of Urdu speakers was equal or more than 10%.

Urdu portal ‘Rekhta’ displayed a book in its e-books list titled ‘Sawaneh Umri Ghazi Ilmuddin Shaheed’, which means ‘a biography of martyr Ilmuddin’. Ilmuddin killed author and publisher Mahashay Rajpal on 6th April 1929 in Lahore.

Urdu portal 'Rekhta' is promoting a book that glorifies Islamist Ilmuddin who killed Mahashay Rajpal in 1929 over 'blasphemy'.

Uttar Pradesh govt has decided to remove Urdu-Persian words from registry documents and replace them with generic Hindi words