Urdu

RantWoman freely admits that linguist brain is a little too fond of stomping around between large numbers of language domains with total dilettante abandon about generations of politics and history colliding across different cultures and alphabets. That of course would be exactly the reason she likes the following item about Urdu:

http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/art-culture/19-myths-about-urdu-hh-01

RantWoman herself would check other sources for in-depth political, historical, economic analysis, but does find the outlines of the arguments highly interesting.