Javed Akhtar on Why Urdu Belongs to India, Not Religion | Sunday Special
Javed Akhtar and Saif Mahmood sit down for a sharp, honest conversation about Urdu, secularism and Indian culture. They talk about why languages belong to regions and not to religions, and why Urdu and Hindi carry the same deep North Indian history despite the politics around them today.
Javed Akhtar makes a clear point about how secularism should be lived naturally, the way we breathe oxygen, instead of being shouted as a slogan. The conversation also looks at how Urdu poetry is finding new readers through Devnagari script, even as fewer people learn to write in the Urdu script itself.
Javed Akhtar makes a clear point about how secularism should be lived naturally, the way we breathe oxygen, instead of being shouted as a slogan. The conversation also looks at how Urdu poetry is finding new readers through Devnagari script, even as fewer people learn to write in the Urdu script itself.
