As part of the celebrations, poets from across India recited verses on truth, resilience, and the struggles faced by Urdu in ...

The Urdu Adab’s special issue on Mir Taqi Mir acknowledges a past mistake of censorship and rectifies it by publishing, for ...

Farmaiye,” says 60-year-old Professor Arinder Singh as he begins the conversation and one immediately knows that a wealth of beautiful Urdu words is about to fill the air. His love for the language is ...

National Language Promotion Department (NLPD) with the collaboration of National Heritage & Culture Division, and the Warsaw ...

On International Mother Language Day, read Nishtha Sood’s personal essay on how Hindi’s dominance is eroding the Punjabi ...

Dhaka is more than 2,000 years old, and was always a hub of trade that attracted many kings and their armies to come and rule ...

Reports from Bangladesh suggested that Islamist elements, in the garb of a fledgling students’ body, did not allow some ...

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee celebrates International Mother Language Day, emphasizing Bengali as a classical language.

On February 21, the world observes International Mother Language Day. But what is the significance of the "mother tongue?" And why is it called that and not something else?

Thousands of people on Friday paid their tribute to the people who laid down their lives during the historic language ...

No Indian invitees for the Kolkata event indicates the shifting climate in Bangladesh, with anti-New Delhi sentiment gaining ...

The nation has united to reverently honor the supreme sacrifice of the language martyrs who laid down their lives to uphold ...