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  2. Urdu poetry - Wikipedia

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    Today, it is an important part of the culture of India and Pakistan. According to Naseer Turabi there are five major poets of Urdu: Mir Taqi Mir (d.1810), Mirza Ghalib (d. 1869), Mir Anees (d.1874), Muhammad Iqbal (d. 1938) and Josh Malihabadi (d.1982). The language of Urdu reached its pinnacle under the British Raj, and it received official ...

  3. Rahat Indori - Wikipedia

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    Anjum Rehbar (separated) Children. 4. Rahat Indori, born as Rahat Qureshi, (1 January 1950 – 11 August 2020) was an Indian Bollywood lyricist and Urdu poet. [1] He was also a former professor of Urdu language and a painter. [2] Prior to this he was a pedagogist of Urdu literature at DAVV.

  4. Shayar (poet) - Wikipedia

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    The literal meaning of shayar (shaa'ir) is poet. [5] There are more than 30 types of Urdu poetry, also known as shayari. Examples of shayari are ghazal, sher, nazm, marsiya, qita and many more. [6] Traditionally, that this form of poetry is often read to an audience in a special setting called mehfil. Although there are many professional ...

  5. Hindi–Urdu controversy - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The Hindi–Urdu 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 ...

  6. Ghalib - Wikipedia

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    Ghalib’s poetry or shayari had smitten Mughal Badshah of Delhi, Bahadur Shah Zaffar. During the reign of the British, the badshah became a British pensioner. He was kept under strict supervision by the British along with his visitors including Ghalib as they grew suspicious of him. The shayari maestro’s pension was suspended by the British.

  7. 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]

  8. Javed Akhtar - Wikipedia

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    Javed Akhtar in Dec 2014. Javed Akhtar was born in 1945 in Gwalior. [7] His father Jan Nisar Akhtar was a Bollywood film songwriter and Urdu poet. [8] His paternal grandfather Muztar Khairabadi was a poet as was his grandfather's elder brother, Bismil Khairabadi, while his great great grandfather, Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi, was a religious scholar of Islam who declared the Indian Rebellion of 1857 ...

  9. Wasim Barelvi - Wikipedia

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    Wasim Barelvi. Zahid Hussain (born 18 February 1940), better known by the pen name Wasim Barelvi, is an Indian Urdu -language poet. [1] He was born in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh. [2][3][4][5] His ghazals, many sung by Jagjit Singh, are very popular. [6][7][8] He has been awarded with the "Firaq Gorakhpuri International Award", [9][10] the Kalidas ...