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  2. Ghalib - Wikipedia

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    Ghalib was a chronicler of a turbulent period. One by one, Ghalib saw the bazaars – Khas Bazaar, Urdu Bazaar, Kharam-ka Bazaar, disappear, and whole mohallas (localities) and katras (lanes) vanish. The havelis (mansions) of his friends were razed to the ground. Ghalib wrote that Delhi had become a desert.

  3. Rekhta (website) - Wikipedia

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    Rekhta (website) Rekhta is an Indiamerary web portal started by Rekhta Foundation, a non-profit organisation dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the Urdu literature. [4] The Rekhta Library Project, its books preservation initiative, has successfully digitized approximately 200,000 books over a span of ten years. [5]

  4. Gulzar - Wikipedia

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    Signature. Gulzar (born Sampooran Singh Kalra; 18 August 1934) is an Indian Hindi-Urdu poet, lyricist, author, screenwriter, and film director known for his works in Hindi cinema. [1] He is regarded as one of greatest Urdu poets of this era. [2] He started his career with music director S.D. Burman as a lyricist in the 1963 film Bandini and ...

  5. List of Urdu authors - Wikipedia

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    Mir Gul Khan Nasir. Zehra Nigah. Shibli Nomani. Asif Noorani. Naeem Baig. Ghulam-us-Saqlain Naqvi. Moeen Nizami. Mohiuddin Nawab. Nimra Ahmed Khan.

  6. Urdu literature - Wikipedia

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    Urdu. v. t. e. Urdu developed during the 13th century, although the name "Urdu" did not exist at the time for the language. Amir Khusrau, who lived in the thirteenth century, wrote and gave shape to the Rekhta dialect (The Persianized combination of Hindavi), which was the early form of Modern Standard Urdu. He was thus called, the "father of ...

  7. Hindi–Urdu controversy - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The HindiUrdu controversy arose in 19th century colonial India out of the debate over whether Modern Standard Hindi or Standard Urdu should be chosen as a national language. Hindi and Urdu are mutually intelligible as spoken languages, to the extent that they are sometimes considered to be dialects or registers of a single spoken ...

  8. Qurratulain Hyder - Wikipedia

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    Qurratulain Hyder (20 January 1927 – 21 August 2007) was an Indian Urdu novelist and short story writer, an academic, and a journalist. One of the most outstanding and influential literary names in Urdu literature, she is best known for her magnum opus, Aag Ka Darya (River of Fire), a novel first published in Urdu in 1959, from Lahore, Pakistan, that stretches from the fourth century BC to ...

  9. Habib Tanvir - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Habib Tanvir (1 September 1923 – 8 June 2009 [2]) was one of the most popular Indian Urdu playwrights, a theatre director, poet and actor. [2] He was the writer of plays such as, Agra Bazar (1954) and Charandas Chor (1975). A pioneer in Urdu and Hindi theatre, he was most known for his work with Chhattisgarhi tribals, at the Naya ...