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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.
Iqbal's poetic works are written primarily in Persian rather than Urdu. Among his 12,000 verses of poetry, about 7,000 verses are in Persian. [52] In 1915, he published his first collection of poetry, the Asrar-i-Khudi اسرارِ خودی (Secrets of the Self) in Persian. The poems emphasise the spirit and self from a religious perspective.
Sahir was born on 8 March 1921, in a red sandstone haveli in Karimpura, Ludhiana, Punjab, British India, into a Punjabi Muslim Gujjar family. [8] This is the reason why he added the suffix Ludhianvi after his name. His mother, Sardar Begum, left her husband thus forfeiting any claim to financial assets from the marriage.
Tehreer. Relatives. Tasleem Fazli, Saba Fazli. Muqtida Hasan Nida Fazli, known as Nida Fazli (12 October 1938 – 8 February 2016 [1] ), was a prominent Indian Urdu poet, lyricist and dialogue writer. [2] [3] He was awarded the Padma Shri in 2013 by the government of India for his contribution to literature. [4]
Zehra Nigah. Zehra Nigah ( Urdu: زہرا نگاہ) is a prominent Urdu poet and scriptwriter from Pakistan, affectionately known as 'Zehra Apa'. [3] [4] [2] As one of the pioneers of Urdu poetry by women, Nigah was one of the first female poets to gain recognition in a male-dominated field. Nigah's achievements are particularly notable in the ...
Mir Muhammad Taqi (February 1723 – 20 September 1810), known as Mir Taqi Mir (also spelled Meer Taqi Meer ), was an Urdu poet of the 18th century Mughal India and one of the pioneers who gave shape to the Urdu language itself. He was one of the principal poets of the Delhi School of the Urdu ghazal and is often remembered as one of the best ...
Mir Babar Ali Anees ( Urdu: مير ببر على انيس, 1800-1874), also known as Mir Anees was an Indian Urdu poet. He used his pen-name (takhallus) of Anees ( Urdu: انيس, Anees means "close friend, companion") in poetry. Anees used Persian, Urdu, Arabic, and Sanskrit words in his poetry. [ 1]