The vanishing legacy of Delhi's Urdu Bazaar | Delhi news | THE WEEK

“A long row of nearly a hundred bookstores used to stand queued here,” said Mohammad Rizwan, as he swung his hand across the air, from one end of the road to another. “Urdu Bazaar... sab khatam hai (Urdu Bazaar.. is over),” he said. Rizwan is the owner of Rizwan Book Depot, one of the five to six bookstores left in the once-teeming Urdu Bazaar of Old Delhi. As per the 2011 Census, around 5.07 crore people comprise the Urdu-speaking population in India—over 4 per cent of the country’s total population. Like Rizwan, many bookstore owners in the area blame extensive digitalisation as one of the causes of dwindling Urdu speakers and readers.

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