Spoken by many millions today, Urdu has a rich past that reflects how cultures melded to forge India's complex history ...

Discover Ranjit Hoskote's curated selection of 150 couplets from Urdu poet Mir Taqi Mir in 'The Homeland's an Ocean.' ...

Urdu, spoken by many millions today, has a rich past that reflects how cultures melded to forge India's complex history. But its literature has been subsumed by the cultural domination of Hindi ...

Discover some surprising facts about Urdu, including how much it has in common with other languages. Also available in Urdu with audio.

But such topics are rarely chosen for theses written for a degree in Urdu literature since psychological realism is comparatively a bit new concept and it requires a command over psychology as ...