Child Quote by Deepti Naval

I want to learn how to speak Urdu. I find it very interesting and soothing to ears. It is very poetic too.

— Sourabh Raj Jain

I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian.

— Juan Cole

In the UK, most of the nasheeds that I did were in my native language, Urdu. Youngsters who could not understand the language came…

— Junaid Jamshed

I went through a phase of reading lots of Urdu poetry, thanks to the great transliterated versions that have become available.

— Satya Nadella

The Urdu or Hindustani language we use isn't popular in theatre these days. It was a language that was being used in cinema from…

— Pankaj Kapur

I was exposed to a Muslim school, so I learnt Urdu. I was exposed to a Hindu school, so I learnt Hindi. I was…

— Saeed Jaffrey

Being master of Urdu doesn't interest me, being part of the global society does, breathing hope into that society matters to me.

— Gulzar

I feel Urdu and Punjabi are quite similar and therefore, I mostly make my songs in Punjabi.

— Sara Khan

I have a funny relationship to language. When I came to California when I was three I spoke Urdu fluently and I didn't speak…

— Mohsin Hamid

I grew up speaking English and Punjabi. Just living and working in Punjab and smelling the early morning air and sitting down and having…

— Kabir Bedi

My mother tongue is Punjabi, but my first language is Urdu, which was the case with the people in undivided Punjab.

— Gulzar

I learned Punjabi before I learned English in spite of the fact that I was born in Canada.

— Jinder Mahal