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Lihaaf. " Lihaaf " ("The Quilt") is an Urdu short story written by Ismat Chughtai which was published in the Urdu literary journal Adab-i-Latif in 1942. In the coming decades, it was widely anthologised and faced an obscenity trial. [ 1] It is one of Chughtai's well known works. [ 2]
The modern Hindi and Urdu standards are highly mutually intelligible in colloquial form, but use different scripts when written, and have lesser mutually intelligibility in literary forms. The history of Bible translations into Hindi and Urdu is closely linked, with the early translators of the Hindustani language simply producing the same ...
Neighbours began with three households, including the Ramsay and Robinson families. [ 1] When storylines for certain characters become tired, the scriptwriters simply move one family out and replace it with a new one. [ 2] Ramsay Street is now a mixture of older characters and newer characters. [ 2] The following is a list of characters and ...
Set in. Delhi. Published. 1869. Mirat-ul-Uroos ( Urdu: مراۃ العروس, The bride's mirror) is an Urdu language novel written by Indian author Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi (1830–1912) and published in 1869. [1] The novel contains themes promoting the cause of female education in Muslim and Indian society, and is credited for giving birth to an ...
Shafiq-ur-Rahman ( Urdu: شفیق الرحمن) (9 November 1920 – 19 March 2000) was a Pakistani humorist and a short-story writer of Urdu language. [1] [2] He was one of the most illustrious writers of the Urdu speaking world. Like Mark Twain and Stephen Leacock, [3] he has given enduring pleasure to his readers.
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 ...
The migration to Abyssinia (Arabic: الهجرة إلى الحبشة, romanized: al-hijra ʾilā al-habaša), also known as the First Hijra (الهجرة الأولى, al-hijrat al'uwlaa), was an episode in the early history of Islam, where the first followers of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (they were known as the Sahabah, or the companions) migrated from Arabia due to their persecution by ...
Letters of Ghalib. The Letters of Ghalib (Khutoot-e-Ghalib) is the compilation of Mirza Ghalib's letters. One of the greatest Urdu-Persian poets of all time, Ghalib was also a passionate and serious writer of letters. [1] The distinguishing quality of Ghalib's epistolary practice was the energy and intimacy of conversational language that he ...