Delhi : Bank of Baroda (Bank), one of India’s leading public sector banks, announced the list of 12 nominations for the “Bank of Baroda Rashtrabhasha Samman” Awards 2023 on 24.05.2023. The four Urdu Novels are among the long-list of 12 novels nomina
Khalid Jawed, the winner of JCB Prize for Literature 2022, on finding new metaphors in the kitchen in his award-winning book and how the intelligent readers of Urdu are vanishing
‘The current trend is to dismiss Urdu as a version of Hindi. There is a mass pretence of it being a foreign, an exotic tongue, but that is not true at all.’
He speaks slowly, and weighs words. Pauses. Insists that meanings are found in the ones not spoken and amidst spaces left blank. That when sentences feel lonely, hanging in a vacuum they assume a new identity.Author Khalid Jawed's 'The .