In Urdu’s shade: Will erasing it from textbooks leave India unchanged?

Urdu scholar Rana Safvi takes Newslaundry on a trip through Old Delhi to explain what Urdu is, where it was born and how its deletion from collective memory will render many narratives, including secularism, hollow. Director: Kartik Nijhawan Producer: Shubham Mishra Editor: Satish Kumar Recording: Anil To watch this and many more videos, click on http://www.newslaundry.com/

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