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The inaugural edition of the award recognised works in twelve languages – Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. In Tamil, the first recipient of the award was R. P. Sethu Pillai, who was honored for his collection of essays entitled Tamil Inbam in 1955.
Taoos Chaman Ki Maina (Short stories) 2002 Gulzar: Dhuan (Short stories) 2003 Syed Muhammad Ashraf: Baad-E-Saba Ka Intizar (Short Stories) 2004 Salam Bin Razzaq: Shikasta Buton Ke Darmiyan (Short Stories) [4] 2005 Jabir Husain: Ret Per Khema (Memoirs) 2006 Makhmoor Saeedi: Rasta Aur Main (Poetry) 2007 Wahab Ashrafi: Tareekh-e-Adab-e-Urdu ...
Roman Urdu also holds significance among the Christians of Pakistan and North India. Urdu was the dominant native language among Christians of Karachi and Lahore in present-day Pakistan and Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh Rajasthan in India, during the early part of the 19th and 20th century, and is still used by Christians in these places ...
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 (افسانہ).
Urdu in its less formalised register is known as rekhta (ریختہ, rek̤h̤tah, 'rough mixture', Urdu pronunciation:); the more formal register is sometimes referred to as زبانِ اُردُوئے معلّٰى, zabān-i Urdū-yi muʿallá, 'language of the exalted camp' (Urdu pronunciation: [zəbaːn eː ʊrdu eː moəllaː]) or لشکری ...
Dastangoi (Urdu: داستان گوئی) is a 13th century Urdu oral storytelling art form. [1] [2] [3] The Persian style of dastan evolved in 16th century. [4] One of the earliest references in print to dastangoi is a 19th-century text containing 46 volumes of the adventures of Amir Hamza titled Dastan e Amir Hamza. [5]
These Persian and Arabic loanwords form 25% of Urdu's vocabulary. [10] [23] As a form of Hindustani and a member of the Western Hindi category of Indo-Aryan languages, [22] 75% of Urdu words have their etymological roots in Sanskrit and Prakrit, [10] [24] [25] and approximately 99% of Urdu verbs have their roots in Sanskrit and Prakrit. [23] [26]
Thirukkural: Universal Tamil Scripture: Alongwith [sic] the Commentary of Parimalazhagar in English: Mumbai (Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan) 2011: Complete—Prose: 278 pages with Tamil text and English translation; ISBN 978-81-7276-448-7: A. Gopalakrishnan: Tirukkural—Thiruvalluvar Karutthurai: Chidambaram (Meiyappan Padhippagam) 2012: Complete—Prose