Guest post by RASHID ALI Javed Akhtar’s recent ‘exile’ from the West Bengal Urdu Academy event did more than generate headlines. It dwarfed a bigger debate about Urdu in Hindi cinema, which was the event’s main theme. The media precipitately reduced the whole issue to the conflict between the lyricist and the Urdu Academy. The … Continue reading Javed Akhtar, Bollywood and Urdu’s Ghostly Existence – Rashid Ali →