Tag: Javed Akhtar on Muslims
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Who Owns Urdu? Javed Akhtar, Religion, and the Fight for a Shared Language
[dropcap]“B[/dropcap]ahut Samjhe the Hum Is Daur Ki Firqa Parasti Ko Zubaan Bhi Aaj Shaikh -o-Brahaman Hai Ham Nhi Samjhe” (Rashid Banarsi) Around 225 years ago, in the city of Calcutta (now Kolkata), the seeds of division between the Urdu and Hindi languages were sown with the establishment of Fort William College. The British colonial administration…