Is Urdu dead ?

A fb message and my reply. I have deleted the name of the sender :

Hon'ble Mr. Justice Markandey Katju .. I too, have lot of Idiots around me who even don't know how to pronounce their own names correctly. The Language Has Actually Died. It Has Been Hanged By Idiot's Neck Till Its Death.

My Reply:

Are you referring to Urdu ? The language which speaks the voice of the heart can never die. It lives in the hearts of Indians. It will die only when Indians cease to have hearts. I am sure that will never happen. Urdu poetry is a shining gem in the treasury of Indian culture. Those who speak disparagingly of Urdu are uncultured boors and idiots

Jun 7th, 3:51pm
Yes True. I hope the same.

Murdering a language

My blood boils when I hear and see the beautiful Urdu language being murdered by wrong pronunciation of its words, e.g. 'zaroor' being pronounced and written as 'jaroor', 'buzurg' as ' bujurg', 'zamaana' as 'jamaana',  خود as 'khud', 'zila' as 'jila', etc.

 There was a Judge in the Allahabad High Court named Justice Raza. One day when I was a Judge in the Allahabad High Court a lawyer pronounced his name as Justice 'Reja', and I took him to task.

 Pronunciation ( uchcharan or talaffuz ) should be correct, otherwise you will be regarded an uncultured boor.

 Once some lawyer said in my court that he is filing a 'petisun'. I asked him " Do you believe in Lord Shiva ?'

 He replied yes.

 I then said to him " Then say ' Shiva Shambho, Shiva Shambho, Shiva Shambho ' 100 times every morning before coming to Court ".