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“Urdu is army’s language.” The word #Urdu comes from the Turkish word for army or camp. During the Mughal era, soldiers and officials from different regions needed a common tongue. Out of their camps grew a new language that borrowed from Persian, Turkic, and local Hindi dialects — what we now know as Urdu. #Delhi’s Urdu Bazaar carries this memory. Once located right in front of the #RedFort, the market was named because the Mughal army camps were set up there. The name stayed on even after the