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Heer Ranjha (Punjabi: ہیر رانجھا (Shahmukhi), ਹੀਰ ਰਾਂਝਾ (Gurmukhi)) is one of the four popular tragic romances of the Punjab. The other three are Mirza Sahiban, Sohni Mahiwal and Sassi Punnun. [1][2][3][4][5] There are several poetic narrations of the story; [6] by far the most famous being Heer by Waris Shah written in ...
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 the ...
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.
Jaun Elia was born as Syed Sibt-e-Asghar Naqvi on 14 December 1931 in Amroha, British India. [4] [5] He belonged to a very educated and influential Shia family.His father, Shafiq Elia, was a Shia Muslim and a scholar of literature and astronomy well-versed in the Arabic, English, Persian, Hebrew and Sanskrit languages, and who corresponded with leading intellectuals like Bertrand Russell. [6]
Academy Award (2008) Grammy Award (2010) Dadasaheb Phalke Award (2013) Jnanpith Award (2024) 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]
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) and ...
After her marriage, she took her pen name Ada Jafarey. Her husband, Nurul Hasan, was a top-ranking civil servant of the Federal Government of India. Ada Jafarey also moved with her husband to Karachi after the independence of Pakistan in 1947. [2] Her husband was a littérateur himself who wrote columns for both English and Urdu newspapers.
His poems are also notable for their rich imagery and in this respect, his contribution to Urdu poetry can hardly be overstated. [8] Azmi's first collection of poems, Jhankar was published in 1943. In 1944, he wrote a poem Ab Agli Id Ek Azad Pakistan Main Hogi — one of the works written by leading Progressive Writers of Urdu campaigning for ...