India’s top court upheld the use of Urdu on public signboards in Maharashtra, rejecting the notion that the language was alien to the country. The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that Urdu and Marathi, ...
In Hyderabad, while the state language Telugu has its own relevance, Urdu also has space and agency—a good chunk of the 12 per cent of the city’s Muslim population consumes news in the language. The ...