‘Urdu in India flourishes in sheer contradictions’: Sukrita Paul Kumar

New Delhi: Renowned Indian writer-critic Sukrita Paul Kumar is coming up with a co-translated book of her father Joginder Paul’s short stories in Urdu, feels that the language survives and flourishes in India amidst sheer contradictions.

“On the one hand, there are lesser and lesser number of people who can read the script and on the other, more and more people are drawn into the highly cultured folds of Urdu language and its poetry and literature,” Kumar said.

Kumar, who held the Aruna Asif Ali Chair at Delhi University till recently, spoke on the sidelines of “Aadaab: Celebrating Urdu”, a daylong event to celebrate Urdu language held earlier this week at the Oxford Bookstore in Rajiv Chowk. (IANS)

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