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It was developed during the period of colonial rule under the British Empire, from the mid-19th century until the mid-20th. [5] The performance of the play Inder Sabha (The Heavenly Court of Indra) written by Agha Hasan Amanat in the court of the last Nawab of Oudh, Wajid Ali Shah in 1855, has been highly regarded as the beginning of Urdu theatre.
It is regarded as the first complete Urdu stage play ever written. [1] [2] The play was translated into German in the 1880s as a doctoral thesis at the University of Leipzig by Friedrich Rosen, and published to positive critical reception in 1892. [1] [2] [3] A film, Indrasabha, based on the play was released by Madan Theatre in 1932. [4]
"Mustapha" is a song written by Freddie Mercury and recorded by British rock band Queen. It is the first track of their 1978 album Jazz , [ 1 ] categorized as "an up-tempo Arabic rocker" by Circus magazine.
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Killer Queen then basks in her power over the iPlanet ("Play the Game"). Galileo and Scaramouche wake up in a hospital. They realise that they are kindred spirits, feared by the rest of their society. ("Under Pressure") They flee together from the hospital. Khashoggi has blown up all the rocks on the iPlanet, but cannot find any supposed hidden ...
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 ...
Bano Qudsia (Urdu: بانو قدسیہ ; 28 November 1928 – 4 February 2017), also known as Bano Aapa, [4] was a Pakistani novelist, playwright and spiritualist. She wrote literature in Urdu, producing novels, dramas plays and short stories. Qudsia is best recognized for her novel Raja Gidh. [5]
In a 1948 speech, Jinnah declared that "Urdu alone would be the state language and the lingua franca of the Pakistan state", although at the same time he called for the Bengali language to be the official language of the Bengal province. [18] Nonetheless, tensions began to grow in East Bengal. [18] Jinnah's health further deteriorated and he ...