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  2. Family of choice - Wikipedia

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    A family of choice, also known as a chosen family, found family, or hānai family [1] is a term that refers to a non-biologically related group of people established to provide ongoing social support.

  3. Faiz Ahmad Faiz - Wikipedia

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    Faiz Ahmad Faiz was born on 13 February, 1911 [15] in Kala Qader, [16] in the Sialkot District of the Punjab Province of British India (present-day Faiz Nagar, [15] in the Narowal District of Punjab, Pakistan) [17] [18] into a Punjabi family. [15] Faiz's family were farmers belonging to the Tataley clan of Muslim Jutts, who were bestowed upon ...

  4. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    Tropes (from Greek trepein, 'to turn') change the general meaning of words. An example of a trope is irony, which is the use of words to convey the opposite of their usual meaning ("For Brutus is an honorable man; / So are they all, all honorable men"). During the Renaissance, scholars meticulously enumerated and classified figures of speech.

  5. How 'Friends' showed 'found family' is just as important as ...

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    It was about, and still is about, family coming together. But Thanksgiving is also the idea [that family can be] chosen," Thompson adds, noting how that is one of the main takeaways of Friends .

  6. Ghazal - Wikipedia

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    The Ghazal tradition is marked by the poetry's ambiguity and simultaneity of meaning. [12] Learning the common tropes is key to understanding the ghazal. There are several locations a Urdu sher might take place in: [13] The Garden, where the poet often takes on the personage of the bulbul, a songbird.

  7. Letters of Ghalib - Wikipedia

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    The havelis (mansions) of his friends were razed. Ghalib wrote that Delhi had become a desert. Water was scarce. Delhi was now “ a military camp”. It was the end of the ashraf social section, captured in the shahrashob trope of his letters. He wrote: "An ocean of blood churns around me-Alas! Were these all! The future will show

  8. List of English words of Hindi or Urdu origin - Wikipedia

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    from Hindi पश्मीना, Urdu پشمينه, ultimately from Persian پشمينه. Punch from Hindi and Urdu panch پانچ, meaning "five". The drink was originally made with five ingredients: alcohol, sugar, lemon, water, and tea or spices. [15] [16] The original drink was named paantsch. Pundit

  9. Urdu ghazal - Wikipedia

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    The Urdu ghazal makes use of a store of common characters, settings, images, and metaphors that inform both readers and poets of how to navigate the aforementioned ghazal universe. [33] These tropes have been cultivated for hundreds of years and are meant to deeply resonate with listeners of the ghazal, invoking their expectations of meaning. [33]