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For the love of Urdu
Updated On: 06 December, 2020 08:50 AM IST | Mumbai | P Vatsalya

Prithvi Vatsalya
Many of us love Urdu for the beauty of its words and the intricacies involved in pronouncing them. Although it was widely spoken in India once upon a time, it's not so anymore. What was considered to be our lingua franca back in the day has ended up becoming marginalised now as it commonly seen as a language of, for and by the Muslim community. A bunch of poetry accounts on Instagram are reintroducing Urdu to the masses by sharing couplets from poets along with English or Hindi transliterations of their verses. These accounts have quite the follower counts and we recommend that you check them out.

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