The April edition of Muqtadara Qaumi Zaban, (National Language Authority) 's house journal, 'Akhbar Urdu' has been dedicated to the memory of national poet Allama Muhammad Iqbal (1877 -1938), whose ...
Mumbai The foundation of Urdu journalism was laid by two Hindus: Harihar Dutta and Sadasukh Lal, publisher and editor respectively of the country’s first Urdu newspaper, Jam e Jahan Numa, brought out ...
Patna daily Qaumi Tanzeem, in an editorial page article, has recalled the contribution of Urdu journalists in the country’s freedom struggle. The article, based on Urdu Academy secretary Rizwan ...
It is widely understood that the East India Company used the printing press as an instrument to strengthen its illegal occupation of the subcontinent. During the British Raj, Hindustani, also known as ...
No. 2 Colootola Street is in the heart of a bustling marketplace in central Calcutta, not very far from lower Chitpore. A shop that sells colourful plastic sheets is a far cry from a newspaper ...
The session titled “Old Urdu journals: A disappearing heritage, Urdu Akhbar Aur Rasail, Ek Ghum Hota Virsa” was an illustrated talk by scholar Choudhri Mohammad Naim. He read history of press from ...
MONTH of May evokes memories of the 1857 war of freedom: it began on May 10, 1857, and officially ended on June 20, 1858. Aside from the debatable nomenclature used to describe the freedom war --- ...