Loved this address by Javed Akhtar and, his pointed critique of how Urdu is being attacked as a 'foreign language' in BJP infested Hindustan. Urdu is a beloved language of the people of India and, is a people's language. I really appreciate how he explains that relationship language/zubaan has with script and syntax grammar. For example, Khari Boli is the ancestor of Urdu and Hindi and, Urdu and Hindi can be written in both Devanagri and Persian scripts just as Western Roman languages borrowed Roman script. As for syntax and grammar, just because you sprinkle an Urdu sentence with English words doesn't mean you are speaking English because it is syntax and grammar which make language. Lastly, Urdu was never a priestly/religious language but incredibly agnostic and philosophical. We should all be proud we know and speak Urdu.
(See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h5C857U0C0)
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