More than 50 bookstores lined Urdu Bazaar in the 1970s, but just 5 are left, all struggling to survive. It’s the last throes of an era of Urdu printing, publishing, and poetry.
This special edition of Cut The Clutter, straight from the Siliguri corridor, details the strategic importance of the narrow strip of land in West Bengal, and how it’s a vital link connecting the Northeast to the rest of India.
We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.
Good riddance!
Urdu has turned into the language of Islamic radicalism in the Indian subcontinent. Jihadi literature and all kinds of radical and violent ideologies emanating out of various Islamic schools are disseminated amongst the masses through Urdu.
Good riddance!
Urdu has turned into the language of Islamic radicalism in the Indian subcontinent. Jihadi literature and all kinds of radical and violent ideologies emanating out of various Islamic schools are disseminated amongst the masses through Urdu.