Language not religion, but culture, must not become cause for division’ NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Tuesday rejected a plea challenging the use of Urdu ...

By upholding the use of Urdu on a municipal signboard in Maharashtra, the Supreme Court reaffirms India’s plural ethos, ...

Asad Mirza Last week, a Supreme Court bench’s observation on the use of Urdu, has once again opened a pandora’s box, on the ...

"If people or a group of people, residing within the area covered by the Municipal ... like Marathi and Hindi, is an Indo-Aryan language. It is a language which was born in this land.

South Asia, home to 25% of the global population, is characterised by the widespread use of five major language families: Indo-European ... all the varieties of speech then known to exist in the area ...

Aryan, name originally given to a people who were said to speak an archaic Indo-European language and who were thought to have settled in prehistoric times in ancient Iran and the northern Indian ...

The first stop of the Aryans in their journey towards India was Iran. • It is the oldest book in the Indo-European language. • A compendium of prayers, it is divided into ten books or mandalas.

This opinion, we are afraid, is incorrect as Urdu, like Marathi and Hindi, is an Indo-Aryan language. It is a language which was born in this land. Urdu developed and flourished in India due to ...

This opinion is grossly incorrect as Urdu, like Marathi and Hindi, is an Indo-Aryan language. Urdu is among the 22 languages officially recognised by the Indian Constitution. It was given the respect ...

clarifying that “Urdu is an Indo-Aryan language that was born in this land” like Marathi and Hindi. The court’s observation is most appropriate since, like all languages, Urdu has flourished ...