Urdu has long been the second official language of Bihar, yet for many years, Urdu enthusiasts have accused the state government of neglecting it. Against this backdrop, when the Urdu Directorate ...

This is in line with the state’s aim of expanding free Urdu-speaking and writing courses across Patna and various district centres, and comes months after the Bihar government announced Urdu ...

Sitting in my university office in Paris, I was recently visited by a young French student wishing to learn the Urdu script. He had traveled to Turkey to study Indian Sufism, and his teachers had told ...