“My grandmother said one learns English to woo a girl but when there’s heartbreak, you come back to Urdu,” shares Devyesh Tripathi, a lawyer practising at the Delhi High Court. The Urdu enthusiast ...

Why has this heartbeat become a cause of heart burn? Why is it in exile in its own country? These lines by poet Manzar Bhopali encapsulate the uncertainty Urdu, a part of the Hindostani language ...

Extract from a Hindustani textbook used at INALCO, Paris in 1833. Credit: Langues’O 1795-1995 Subscribe for ads-free reading Sitting in my university office in Paris, I was recently visited by a young ...