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Fading literature: Delhi’s famed Urdu Bazaar on last legs

  • Urdu, spoken by many millions, has rich past that reflects how cultures melded to forge India’s complex history
  • But its literature has been subsumed by the cultural domination of Hindi, struggling against false perceptions
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