Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Urdu – Add value to your Travelling

Scholars have described language as light of mind and expression of soul. It is more than just a source of communication for day to day life but also has significance to highlight the national ideology and collateral vision of speakers. Development in the world would not be possible without the presence of a language. Every successor inherits knowledge and wisdom through language, which serves as predecessor for further development on a subject.
Over 160 million people speak Urdu language. It is the national language of Pakistan, country renowned for beautiful mountains, Romantic Sunsets and diversified cultural activities. Hundred of tourists travel over the year to experience the hospitality and generosity of Pakistani people. If you know Urdu language you would have an opportunity to closely observe the stupendous cultural values. Knowing Urdu language would mix you up with local people which glorify your visit with their extreme hosting traditions.
Urdu language is rich in vocabulary and expression. Its speakers have legacy of historic literature which projects wisdom, insight, knowledge and information for its readers. Creative Urdu Writing is renowned all over the world, number of times Urdu publications have been translated to other languages to extract thought provoking knowledge for others.
Urdu language is soft and expressive. It has capacity to give expression for every situation, sentiment and feeling.
If you travel in search of nature or for knowledge sharing; Pakistan is destination for your cause. Its hospitality and cultural creativity would add value to your travelling. You would meet a new world, welcoming everyone to learn share and rise. Urdu language is a great tool to interact with people and learn through their experiences and findings.

Urdu – Absolute Expression for Everyone

World is full of languages, learning different languages help individuals to gain knowledge and skills. Every nation is renowned for their unique expression and style of accent. Language gives medium to its speakers to express their thoughts and emotions. Every language moves through evolutions with time to gain diversity of words and phrases to facilitate its speaker with diversified needs.  For all those who love to explore different cultures and traditions language is their tool to enjoy and spread their findings.
Urdu is national language of Pakistan, a country which has unique, rich and most diversified culture in the world. Driving few extra miles bring about a complete different tradition preserving national ideology, strength and element of hosting.   
Urdu language has proved its strength and versatility all over the world. Being absolute and supreme in nature its creative fraternities have produced antiques of Urdu literature. Famous poets like Iqbal, Faiz and Ghalib have successfully managed to present their creativity using the rich Urdu vocabulary and catchy sentence building.
Despite the fact that Urdu has been seeing a tough time to maintain its presence and legacy, it has proved to be complete and thoughtful expression for all type of communications. In the subcontinent many times purposely its speakers are forced to abandon language for many political gains. Beauty and versatility of Urdu language has always kept it precious with its speakers. This is the reason Urdu has reached to 4th commonly used language in the world.
Urdu learning can be a good experience for everyone it can help you to read and benefit from the creative and though provoking expressions.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

URDU and HINDI: Two Similar yet Different Languages

Urdu and Hindi are considered different languages which enjoy completely different scriptures and sociolinguistic sense. However, these two languages are not even distinct dialects, but these are different literary styles of one dialect. This is called the “dehalvi” dialect, which encompasses verbal styles of both Hindi and Urdu.
At idiomatic and conversational level, these are identical in nature and a speaker often cannot be identified whether speaking Hindi or Urdu. These languages have very small differences in vocabulary, plus the pronunciation. Grammar of these two languages is indistinguishable and both the languages enjoy Persian and Sanskrit influences to a great level.
The ambiguity in this colloquial language has often been classified “Hindustani”, which is strongly used by media, in Bollywood films to target masses at universal level. The formal and academic versions, on the other hand side, differ a lot because Urdu enjoys the base of Persian and Arabic, while Hindi has the base of Sanskrit. This difference goes up to the level where both of these languages become mutually incomprehensible.
The scripts of both the languages have been following a general convention, of Urdu being written in Persio- Arabic style while Hindi is written in Devanagari style. Often the nationalists of the languages classify both the languages in different pools stating that these languages have nothing in common and they have always been separate languages.
Researchers have always been confronted with an issue of distinguishing between the speakers of the two languages Hindi and Urdu, in India and Pakistan. It has always been problematic to estimate number of speakers for whom Hindi is first language and for whom Urdu is first. Therefore, the estimate number of people is vague and contentious.

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Urdu – The eternal Language!

Urdu is one of the most beautiful languages amongst the languages spoken around the world. It lies amongst the few ancient verbal communication of the world. History of Urdu language goes back to 17th century when this language originated from central Asia. The word Urdu is derived from Turkish language, which simply means “army” or “camp.”
Urdu language was originated to strengthen the course of communication between the Muslim soldiers during their conquest of India. The soldiers in the Muslim army were from different backgrounds, mainly Persian, Arabic, and Turkish. To make the communication between these soldiers smooth and understandable, a new language was developed which was then named “Urdu.”
This was the time when Persian was the official language of India, which then got changed to Urdu. Urdu language mainly contains the words of Persian language because at that time, majority was Persian speaking in the Muslim army. Developed during that time, Urdu holds its importance till now. It has survived through many times and successfully managed to keep its sanctity and glory.
The popularity of the language and its usage even continued after the Britishers took over the whole India. English was made the official language of the sub-continent, but the popularity of Urdu language and its affiliation with Muslim culture did not let it diminish from the minds of Muslims in subcontinent. It was this kinship of Muslims that Urdu has survived with such troughs and reached us becoming the national language of a Muslim country Pakistan. Currently Urdu is being spoken in different parts of the world including Pakistan, India, and Afghanistan.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Urdu Drama- Losing Its Essence And Soul

Drama is collection of several elements all together. These elements are inspirations from life and its different aspects. There is always an obvious relationship between the drama on screen and life in real.
Urdu Drama writers have earned a great name across the world in portraying themselves as natural narrator of real stories and prevailing cultures in the society.  Influential Drama writers have widely inspired the Hindi Drama tradition. This was the same era when Iranian and Turkish Drama directors started giving huge doses of poetry for additional flavor to overall drama themes.
It is believed that Urdu Drama theater has influenced the Indian drama productions in all respects. This evolution led to huge success for Indian theater all over the world. Further this evolution influenced the Indian film industry in Bombay. Successes of Bollywood films heard widely with the introduction of new film subject based on real dramas of life Pictured with music, action and romance.
Urdu Drama is still popular among the people despite the huge fan followings for film industry. With passing time, Dramas have attained new forms and traditions; the time for targeting the critical and serious societal issues is almost over. New Drama writer understanding the culture shifts are intended to produce more commercial dermatology. Commercial Drama productions have more space for the entertainment with limited scope for giving moral messages to the viewers. It won’t be wrong if we say Urdu Drama industry is losing its soul and essence. Need is for understanding the ideology of Drama pioneers who laid foundation for raising Societal Issues rather than giving the blend of glamour and style.

Urdu Literature- Lets Empower Our Thoughts

Languages have great importance for speakers. Many scholars have called language as peace and light of the mind which help speakers to reshape their thoughts and give way to express their emotions over the time. According to linguist Edward, language is more than just expression of thoughts, perceptions, sentiments and values of a society, but it also presents the   basic expression for national heritage and identity.
Urdu language has a long and very colorful history, it moved through different vocabulary additions and accents to finally shape itself as an absolute medium of communication for its users. 
Initially Urdu Poetry was dominating portion in the Urdu Literature. Urdu prose has always been there but it was not more than conventional epic stories renowned as Dastan .Urdu poetry being the diversified expression with the flavors of love, romance, critics, wit and Advice became more popular among the people.
Famous Poets like Iqbal, Meer and Ghalib introduced new style in Urdu poetry their efforts for different targeted audiences was set successfully with the beauty and diversification of Urdu language. Their publications are jewels of Urdu Literature which are still popular among the masses.
With the poetry many Urdu writers have successfully intimated the entire world with the power of their Urdu expression for targeting many national and international issues.
Urdu Literature is full of diversified creative works which has addressed every aspect of people with the beauty and effectiveness.
It is our responsibility to read and spread the valuable findings of Urdu literature.