NEW DELHI, Nov 4 — In the bustling heart of Old Delhi, Indian bookseller Mohammed Mahfooz Alam sits forlorn in his quiet store, among the last few selling literature in a...
Controversy rages over release of Netflix’s ‘Squid Game 2’ trailer featuring veteran actor Song Young-chang who was convicted of underage prostitution This photograph taken on October 22, 2024 shows a student sitting amid Urdu books stacked at the Hazrat Shah Waliullah public library, in Urdu Bazar in the old quarters of Delhi.
“There was a time when, in a year, we would see 100 books being published,” said 52-year-old Alam, lamenting the loss of the language and its readership. But while Urdu is largely understood by speakers of India’s most popular language Hindi, their scripts are entirely different.The Maktaba Jamia bookshop he manages opened a century ago. Alam took over its running this year driven by his love for the language.
But Urdu has faced challenges in being viewed as connected to Islamic culture, a popular perception that has grown since the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi took power in 2014. “With the advent of the internet, everything became easily available on the mobile phone,” said Sikander Mirza Changezi, who co-founded a library to promote Urdu in Old Delhi in 1993.
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