A political dispute emerged between Karnataka's Congress and the BJP over an Urdu advertisement for a health program. The BJP accused the Congress of neglecting Kannada and playing appeasement ...

After reading some interesting analyses of the dominance of the Hindi-belt in India, I thought about my work on culture, language, and politics, specifically the decay of Urdu litearure in ...

Taimoor Hassan developed Qalb, the world’s largest Urdu Large Language Model (LLM), as a second-year graduate student in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering.

Pakistan is dropping English as its official language and switching to Urdu, a popular language in the Indian subcontinent. The long-rumored change was confirmed by Pakistani Minister of Planning, ...

Sitting in my university office in Paris, I was recently visited by a young French student wishing to learn the Urdu script. He had traveled to Turkey to study Indian Sufism, and his teachers had told ...

The once-thriving world of Urdu-language media in India is today a shadow of its former self. From icons like Qaumi Awaaz and Roznama Rashtriya Sahara to lesser-known weeklies, many publications that ...