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In, 'Whose Urdu Is It Anyway?' Rakhshanda Jalil reclaims a shared language beyond religion, tracing its many voices from India’s past to its contested present.

‘Urdu is as Indian as anybody or anything can be regarded as Indian’: Rakhshanda Jalil

August 29, 2025 7:52 pm

Once India’s common language, Urdu is now boxed as Muslim identity. Dr Rakhshanda Jalil’s anthology reclaims it as India’s shared, many-voiced, culturally composite inheritance.

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First two volumes of 'The Routledge Writer in Context' series explores texts, contexts in translation of writers Krishna Sobti, Joginder Paul

December 02, 2022 8:35 pm

A welcome and timely series, it makes accessible the critical corpus of the two leading figures in Hindi and Urdu literature

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Renowned Urdu writer Shamsur Rahman Faruqi passes away

December 25, 2020 3:29 pm

The Twitter handle of Dastangoi Collective confirmed the news and informed that Faruqi breathed his last at his place in Allahabad at 11.20 am

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Remembrance Of Things Past

July 28, 2017 12:25 am

Naiyer Masud’s stories record the details of a decaying culture with dignity. A quintessential representative of Awadh culture, he was born in Lucknow, taught in the city and lived there till his death. He is perhaps the only writer to have translated Franz Kafka into Urdu.