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Urdu poetry (Urdu: اُردُو شاعرى Urdū šāʿirī) is a tradition of poetry and has many different forms. 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 ...
Muniba Mazari Baloch (Urdu: منیبہ مزاری; born 3 March 1987) is a Pakistani activist, anchor, artist, model, singer and motivational speaker. She became the National Ambassador UN Women Pakistan by BBC in 2015.
He began writing around 1928 while serving as a teacher at Kupwara district. The first Urdu classical poetry he came across was Aab-e hayat by Muhammad Husain Azad, and later he started writing verse poetic compositions in Urdu language which was first published in Urdu magazines such as Kaleem and Adb-e-Lateef, [7] 1930s literary magazines edited by Josh Malihabadi and other literary figures ...
Urdu literature (Urdu: ادبیاتِ اُردُو, “Adbiyāt-i Urdū”) comprises the literary works, written in the Urdu language. While it tends to be dominated by poetry , especially the verse forms of the ghazal ( غزل ) and nazm ( نظم ), it has expanded into other styles of writing, including that of the short story, or afsana ...
Anwaar Ahmad obtained his early education from the Muslim Boys High School in Multan, Pakistan. He earned his Masters (Urdu) degree from Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan in 1969. He then went on to obtain his PhD from Bahauddin Zakariya University in 1985. His dissertation was titled Urdu Short Story in its Socio-Political Perspective. [4]
The Urdu Dictionary Board (Urdu: اردو لغت بورڈ, romanized: Urdu Lughat Board) is an academic and literary institution of Pakistan, administered by National History and Literary Heritage Division of the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. Its objective is to edit and publish a comprehensive dictionary of the Urdu language.
Waheed Akhtar (1934–1996), Urdu poet, writer, critic, orator, and one of the leading Muslim scholars and philosophers of the 20th century Baqer Amanatkhani (1905-1990), urdu poet, wrote 36 Marsiyas, more than 435 salaams, 200 Nauhas totalling more than 40,000 couplets in praise of Ahlulbayt.
The Urdu ghazal makes use of two main rhymes: the radif and qaafiya. [9] The radif is a repeating refrain consisting of a single word or short phrase that ends every second line in the ghazal. [9] However, in the matla, the first she'r of a ghazal, the radif will end both lines of the she'r. [8] The qaafiya is a rhyming syllable that precedes ...