It is 2pm, and a seven-year-old boy sits in an after-school Urdu remedial class, his fingers tracing the unfamiliar curves of the words before him. The sentence on the page seems simple enough: “Yeh ...

Bihar's Kishanganj district has mandated private CBSE-affiliated schools to teach Urdu, following a DISHA meeting highlighting its absence. Schools must report compliance to the Bihar Education ...

Aisha PZ at All Things Pakistan urges the expatriate Pakistani parents to teach the Pakistani state language Urdu to their children. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest ...

The decision of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to offer question papers to students only in English or Hindi has put students of Urdu medium MANUU schools in trouble. Students ...

District Education Officer Nasir Hussain has instructed CBSE-affiliated private schools in Kishanganj district to offer Urdu as a subject. The directive follows concerns raised during a district ...

A few weeks ago, in a class on Urdu poetry in translation, I was asked a disconcerting question about the status of Urdu as a language. In light of the frequent controversies generated around the ...