BEIJING: The Urdu language may be a bit more challenging than other languages, but a growing number of Chinese students are choosing to learn it anticipating opportunities to be offered by Chinese ...

rdu. The very word evokes a sense of nostalgia, a whisper of poetry, a connection to a rich cultural heritage. More than just a language, it’s an emotion, a shared history, a mother tongue that ...

When Urdu journalism is celebrating 200 years of its existence, it seems to be perhaps the best opportunity to clear some myths and misconceptions about Urdu. Urdu was born and flourished in India.

One is quite familiar with the expressions: Urdu speaking, Urdudaan and Urdu medium, literal and colloquial. Urdu-speaking people are not just the ones who natively speak Urdu or the descendants of ...