Urdu, struggling to survive?

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Urdu, struggling to survive?

New Delhi, May 18 (PTI) A rich language, which worked as a bond among the people across the country against the East India Company rule in 1857, Urdu is struggling to survive with not many of the young generation keen to learn it as a subject.

Urdu, born in Delhi during the Mughal period, nourished during emperor Shahjahan's rule and spread across the entire sub-continent, is dying at the very city of its birth place and there is no doubt about it, says noted writer and columnist Khushwant Singh. "Even Muslims-the younger ...

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