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In Lucknow, Razia began to teach, write and translate in order to earn a living. She translated about 40 books into Urdu. [8] Her translation of Bertold Brecht's Life of Galileo to Urdu was called powerful. [9] She translated Siyaram Sharan Gupta's Nari (published as Aurat (Woman) by Sahitya Akademi), [10] and Mulk Raj Anand's Saat Saal (Seven ...
Sakhi (Gurmukhi: ਸਾਖੀ; sākhī) literally means 'historical account', 'anecdote', or 'story'. It is derived from the Sanskrit word sākṣī (साक्षी) which literally means 'witness'.
Doha is a very old "verse-format" of Indian poetry.It is an independent verse, a couplet, the meaning of which is complete in itself. [1] As regards its origin, Hermann Jacobi had suggested that the origin of doha can be traced to the Greek Hexametre, that it is an amalgam of two hexametres in one line.
Naya Qanun (New Law) explores the character of Ustaad Mongu, a tonga-driver and the political atmosphere in India in the backdrop of the commencement of Government of India Act 1935. [9] Tamasha (Spectacle), first published in Rusi Afsare (Russian Stories) and later in Atish Paray dealt with the Jallianwala Bagh massacre .
Sau Sakhi (lit. Hundred Anecdotes ), also known as Guru Ratan Mal , [ 1 ] is a collection of hundred sakhis traditionally attributed to Bhai Ram Kanwar, a descendant of Baba Buddha who had dictated it to scribe Sahib Singh. [ 2 ]
₹ 13 crore (US$1.5 million) [1] Dus Kahaniyaan ( transl. Ten stories ) is a 2007 Indian Hindi -language anthology film featuring ten different stories directed by a host of six directors: Sanjay Gupta , Apoorva Lakhia , Meghna Gulzar , Rohit Roy , Hansal Mehta and Jasmeet Dhodhi.
Doha (Urdu: دوہا, Hindi: दोहा, Punjabi: ਦੋਹਾ) is a form of self-contained rhyming couplet in poetry composed in Mātrika metre. This genre of poetry first became common in Apabhraṃśa and was commonly used in Hindustani language poetry. [1] Among the most famous dohas are those of Sarahpa, Kabir, Mirabai, Rahim, Tulsidas ...
Sachal Sarmast was a descendant of Umar and wrote poetry in seven languages: Sindhi, Siraiki, Persian, Urdu, Balochi, Punjabi and Arabic. [11] He lived during the Kalhoro/ Talpur era. He was born in 1152 H (AD 1739) in Daraza , near Ranipur .