When Urdu journalism is celebrating 200 years of its existence, it seems to be perhaps the best opportunity to clear some myths and misconceptions about Urdu. Urdu was born and flourished in India.

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In the early 1900s, a young Winston Churchill travelled through Britain’s “possessions” in East Africa, including modern-day Uganda, Kenya, Sudan and South Sudan, later recounting his adventures in a ...

Dakhla is africa’s strangest boomtown. To the many kite-surfers who visit the place, the combination of peaceful waters and brisk onshore winds makes it simply a great place to surf. But to the United ...

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THIS month India will mark 78 years since it unshackled itself from Britain. In that time it has risen from being a desperately poor country reliant on food aid to becoming a net exporter of grain and ...