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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.’
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 ...
Urdu is a pure Hindustani language, which is not spoken anywhere, by anyone who isn't from India, or part of the diaspora, Pakistanis and their children.