Dear Friends,
I am writing this note as the General Secretary of the Anjuman Taraqqi Urdu (Hind) to all allies who can help rescue Urdu from the grave quagmire it is currently confined in, branded as a ‘Muslim language’, ‘language of terrorists’, ‘synonymous with Pakistan’, etc., Urdu’s glorious reign seems a thing of the past. Urdu, unlike the current misnomer, is a secular language and boasts a literature that has been enriched by literary greats from the Muslim community and people from other faiths as well, notwithstanding the fact that Urdu was used by missionary forces among Muslims. Missionaries, of course, no matter which faith they ascribe to, use all resources at their mercy for proselytization; so also in the case of Urdu and Muslims. The interesting thing is that when Urdu was the predominant language in undivided India, anti-Urdu forces, some of whom later campaigned for Hindi nationalism, used the Urdu script to oppose Urdu and promote that particular brand of Hindi.
I am writing this note as the General Secretary of the Anjuman Taraqqi Urdu (Hind) to all allies who can help rescue Urdu from the grave quagmire it is currently confined in, branded as a ‘Muslim language’, ‘language of terrorists’, ‘synonymous with Pakistan’, etc., Urdu’s glorious reign seems a thing of the past. Urdu, unlike the current misnomer, is a secular language and boasts a literature that has been enriched by literary greats from the Muslim community and people from other faiths as well, notwithstanding the fact that Urdu was used by missionary forces among Muslims. Missionaries, of course, no matter which faith they ascribe to, use all resources at their mercy for proselytization; so also in the case of Urdu and Muslims. The interesting thing is that when Urdu was the predominant language in undivided India, anti-Urdu forces, some of whom later campaigned for Hindi nationalism, used the Urdu script to oppose Urdu and promote that particular brand of Hindi.
