11/6/2022 0 Comments Bollywood a to z moviesIt was the language of the common people, spoken in army camps, in markets, by artisans, said Dr. Amir Khosrow was its first known poet, and the mixed language that he wrote in was variously termed Hindvi, Dehlavi, Rekhta, Hindustani at different points of its evolution. Their commonalities, however, far outnumber the differences. Syntactically Urdu and Hindi are both rooted in Sanskrit whereas lexically Urdu is rooted in Perso-Arabic verbiage, Hindi in Sanskrit. For Hindi, it’s Devanagari, while for Urdu, it’s Nastaliq. There’s a false dichotomy between the two, because they are sister languages that only differ in script. Khalid Jawed of Jamia Millia Islamia’s Urdu department, alluded to Gulzar’s lines from the famous SRK-starrer to explain the Hindi-Urdu connect. Professor Abul Kalam of Urdu Department, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, and Dr. Speaking to News18, Urdu experts echoed this sentiment. Yet, Urdu is a language without which, much of Hindi-speakers’ expression of love would not have reached its fruition. Now, mired in controversy, the politics of the language takes the foreground and its poetics, relegated to the shadows. Before the controversy that erupted over apparel brand FabIndia’s usage of ‘Jashn-e-Riwaaz’, anyone thinking of Urdu might have gravitated towards Gulzar’s famous lines in ‘Chaiyya Chaiyya’: “Woh yaar hai jo khushboo ki tarah, Woh jiski zubaan Urdu ki tarah".
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