Tag: Urdu
Who Owns Urdu? Javed Akhtar, Religion, and the Fight for a Shared Language
“Bahut 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...
An IPS officer, whose passion lies in Urdu poetry
Kolkata: He is just forty, and is the deputy commissioner of Kolkata’s Special Task Force. But that is not his only introduction these days....