Tuesday, 24 May, 2022
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Topic: Urdu

AIR’s Urdu service, popular in both India and Pakistan, truncated to 3 hours from 18

Amrita Nayak Dutta -
The AIR Urdu service has a wide listener base in both countries, and it also airs programmes to counter propaganda from Pakistan.

Habib Tanvir, the iconic playwright and director known for his work with tribal artists

Bismee Taskin -
Habib Tanvir travelled through the interiors of Chhattisgarh, meeting and working with local village artists, and used folk traditions in his plays.

Jan Nisar Akhtar — Bollywood lyricist who was ‘poet in a real sense’

Kairvy Grewal -
On his 106th birth anniversary, ThePrint explores the life and love of Jan Nisar Akhtar.

Josh Malihabadi, the Urdu poet who migrated to Pakistan for his love of Urdu

Taran Deol -
His work earned him the name ‘Shair-e-Inquilaab’, or Poet of the Revolution.

Delhi HC calls for copies of 100 FIRs to check if police still using Urdu, Persian words

PTI -
Court to check if recent police circular to its stations to stop the use of 383 Urdu or Persian words while registering complaints was being complied with. Wants FIRs to be in ‘simple language’.

‘Modi shasan’ not ‘Modi sarkar’: This IIM alumnus wants Urdu out of Hindi

Kritika Sharma -
Speaking at India International Centre in Delhi, IIM alum Nityanand Misra said Hindi & Urdu were different languages and should be spoken as such.

Everyone has got it wrong in the Ramadan-Ramzan debate. And no, it’s not about Wahhabism

Rizwan Ahmad -
Explaining the shift from Ramzan to Ramadan in India as an influence of Saudi brand of Islam or Wahhabism is shockingly superficial.

Pakistani Urdu newspaper uses abusive language for Modi and his mother

Snehesh Alex Philip -
The news report comes amid heightened tensions between India and Pakistan following the Pulwama terror attack.

‘Rich Muslims’ expense on Umrah, marriage can teach 3 lakh poor Muslim kids for 18 yrs’

Rasheed Kidwai -
With 120 million Indian Muslims living on Rs 67 a day, scholars want rich community members to spend less on lavish weddings, multiple pilgrimages.

IAF jets dropped bombs on JeM camps in Balakot on 26 February, show govt satellite images

ThePrint Team -
A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.
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Golden Temple

What Akal Takht must know about harmonium and music before banishing it from Golden Temple

Yashika Singla -
In an era where India’s past and ‘purity’ are constantly being dug up and debated, the humble harmonium has become the latest victim.
Galle Face Green the popular promenade in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo has become ground zero for the protest against the Gotabaya Rajapaksa government. | Photo: Regina Mihindukulasuriya

Sri Lanka may be a teaser for a global default crisis

Protecting pilots’ mental health will keep us all safer.Photographer: Bruce Bennett/Getty Images North America

Mental health of pilots under scanner after plane crash in China

Economy

World’s $300 trillion in debt. Here’s what it means for services like health, education

Victoria Masterson -
To meet debt payments, at least 100 countries will have to reduce spending on essential services, the IMF estimates.

Defence

Boeing's F/A-18 Super Hornet pulls off its first successful launch from a ski-jump at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, US | Photo credit: Boeing

2 American Super Hornets in India as Boeing looks to showcase fighters for Navy deal

Snehesh Alex Philip -
Navy looking at about 26 multi-role deck-based fighters for its aircraft carrier. Visit by Super Hornets comes close on heels of similar trip by competitor Rafale M of Dassault Aviation.

National Interest

Mandir or Masjid? New surveys not needed, just acceptance of truth & move towards reconciliation

Shekhar Gupta -
That temples were destroyed and mosques built is undisputed history. The past can’t be changed, but we can’t deny the wrongs of the past either before we consider reconciliation.

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