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  2. Zameen (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Zameen (Urdu: زمین, romanized: Zamīn, lit. 'land'), alternatively spelled Zamin, is an Urdu novel by Pakistani novelist and short story writer Khadija Mastoor. The novel was published posthumously by Idara-e-Farogh-e-Urdu in 1983. Daisy Rockwell, PhD, translated it into English and released it in July 2019 under the title A Promised Land.

  3. Aangan (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Aangan / ˈɑːŋɡən / ( Urdu: آنگن, romanized : Āṅgan, lit. 'courtyard'), alternatively spelled Angan, is a period novel by Pakistani novelist and short story writer Khadija Mastoor. Published in 1962, it is hailed as a masterpiece of Urdu literature. [ 2][ 3] It won Mastoor the 1963 Adamjee Literary Award for Urdu prose and has been ...

  4. Clear Light of Day - Wikipedia

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    Urdu is the language of culture, refinement, and knowledge. Hindi is considered every day, mundane and banal. [13] Additionally the repeated examples of poetry emphasize the beauty of the one language compared to the other as more often than not they are in Urdu. Raja expounds how an Urdu poet could do that in a single couplet.

  5. Cracking India - Wikipedia

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    Summary. Setting: Lahore. Time: 1943 - 1948. This novel is generally referred to as a story about the Partition of India – hence the title – but its original title was "Ice-Candy-Man," which allows for a broader interpretation of the story. The plot involves Lenny, a 4-year-old Parsee girl who recounts her childhood memories after she is ...

  6. Urdu literature - Wikipedia

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    Urdu. v. t. e. Urdu developed during the 13th century, although the name "Urdu" did not exist at the time for the language. Amir Khusrau, who lived in the thirteenth century, wrote and gave shape to the Rekhta dialect (The Persianized combination of Hindavi), which was the early form of Modern Standard Urdu. He was thus called, the "father of ...

  7. Siddhartha (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Siddhartha: An Indian novel (German: Siddhartha: Eine Indische Dichtung; German: ⓘ) is a 1922 novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha.

  8. Mass media in Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    A number of Muslim papers and their publishers moved to Pakistan, including Dawn, which began publishing daily in Karachi in 1947, the Morning News, and the Urdu-language dailies Jang and Anjam. By the early 2000s, 1,500 newspapers and journals existed in Pakistan. [39]

  9. Seerat-i-Sayyid Ahmad Shaheed - Wikipedia

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    Seerat-i-Sayyid Ahmad Shaheed (Urdu: سیرت سید احمد شہیدؒ) is the first historical biography of Syed Ahmad Barelvi, originally written in Urdu by Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi. He wrote the book at the age of 24. The book had two volumes. The first volume had 125 chapters and 588 pages. The second volume had 150 chapters and 588 pages.