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Ismat Chughtai (21 August 1915 – 24 October 1991) was an Indian Urdu novelist, short story writer, liberal humanist and filmmaker. Beginning in the 1930s, she wrote extensively on themes including female sexuality and femininity, middle-class gentility, and class conflict, often from a Marxist perspective. With a style characterised by literary realism, Chughtai established herself as a ...
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 literature is popular mostly ...
Jaun Elia. Syed Sibt-e-Asghar Naqvi, [1] commonly known by his pen-name Jaun Elia ( Urdu: جون ایلیا, 14 December 1931 – 8 November 2002), was a Pakistani poet, philosopher, biographer and scholar. One of the most prominent modern Urdu poets, popular for his unconventional ways, he "acquired knowledge of philosophy, logic, Islamic ...
Shahr Ashob. The Shahr Ashob ( Persian: شهر آشوب; literary written as Shahr-e-Ashob (lit. 'The city's misfortune' [1] ), sometimes spelled Shahar-i-Ashob, is an ancient Urdu poetic genre in South Asia with its roots in lamented classical Urdu poetry. [2] [3] It was existed and widely used by the poets between the 16th and 19th centuries ...
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 Josh Malihabadi (d.1982). The language of Urdu ...
Aab-e hayat ( Urdu: آبِ حیات, lit. water of life) is a commentary (or tazkira) on Urdu poetry written by Muhammad Husain Azad in 1880. [1] The book was described as "canon-forming" and "the most often reprinted, and most widely read, Urdu book of the past century." [1] [2] The book is regarded as the first chronological history of Urdu ...
Allama Rashid-ul-Khairi, born as Mohammad Abdur Rashid and largely known as Musavire Gham (مصوّرِ غم), was a social reformer from British India. He is also one of the most celebrated literary names of Urdu literature. Khairi blended reformist and didactic teachings with literary works and is considered among the pioneers of the Urdu short story. [1] [2] He was the father of Urdu ...
Asif Aslam Farrukhi ( Urdu: آصف اسلم فرخی; 16 September 1959 – 1 June 2020) was a Pakistani writer, translator, and literary critic active in both Urdu and English. [2] He was also a public health expert and polyglot. He translated books from English into Urdu, as well as from Sindhi to Urdu and English. His collections of ...