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‘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.’
On the bicentenary of the Urdu press in India, it is sad to note that there is now no major Urdu newspaper or magazine that is edited by a non-Muslim. In the past 75 years, the culture of Urdu magazines read by families of all faiths has disappeared.
‘Dastangoi - The re-discovered Art of Urdu Storytelling’ will take place over two evenings on February 10 and 12, 2023 at the Mandarin Oriental Ballroom in Singapore.