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SADAT HASSAN MANTO

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SAADAT HASAN MANTO : The writing of Manto Saadat Hasan Manto Manto chronicled the chaos that prevailed, during and after the Partition of India in 1947.He started his literary career translating work of literary giants, such as Victor Hugo, Oscar Wilde and Russian writers such as Chekhov and Gorky. His first story was "Tamasha", based on the Jallianwala Bagh massacre at Amritsar.Though his earlier works, influenced by the progressive writers of his times,showed a marked leftist and socialist leanings, his later work progressively became stark in portraying the darkness of the human psyche, as humanist values progressively declined around the Partition. His final works, which grew from the social climate and his own financial struggles, reflected an innate sense of human impotency towards darkness and contained a satirism that verged on dark comedy, as seen in his final work, Toba Tek Singh. It not only showed the influence of his own demons, but also t...
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MIRZA ASAD ULLAH KHAN GHALIB

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Biography Mirza Ghalib with his wife Mirza Asadullah Khan (1797-1869) who wrote with a nom de plume of Asad before choosing Ghalib, which literally means overcoming or overpowering, hailed from a Central Asian family of Aibak Turks who served traditionally as soldier s. Unlike his grandfather who had migrated to India during the reign of Sah Alam II to join army, and his father who also followed the same profession and was killed in an army action in Alwar, Ghalib excelled brilliantly as a poet, prose writer, diarist, and a writer of engrossingly intimate letters. He was born in Agra where the family had settled. He lost his father at the age of five and was brought up by his uncle who also passed away four years later after which he was taken care of by his maternal grandfather. Married at an early age of thirteen, he moved to Delhi where he kept shifting his residence as a tenant in the vicinity of what is now known as old Delhi till he settled down in yet ano...
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FAIZ AHMED FAIZ

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Faiz Ahmed Faiz Faiz Ahmed Faiz was born on 13th February in 1911 at Sialkot. He was a great revolutionary Poet. He received early Islamic Education from Maulvi Muhammed Ibrahim Mir Sialkoti. Faiz Ahmed Faiz began his career as a Lecturer from M.A.O College Amritsar in 1951. He is one of the most famous Poet. Faiz Ahmed Faiz died on November 20, 1984 in Lahore. In this page you will read the Biography of Faiz Ahmed Faiz in Roman Urdu. IN ROMAN URDU: Urdu adab ke bohat se naqadeen ke nazdeek Faiz Ahmed faiz, Ghalib aur Iqbal ke bad Urdu ke sab se azeem Shaiyr hain. Aap anjuman taraqqi pasand tehreek ke fa’al rukun aur aik mumtaz communist the. Faiz Ahmed Faiz 13 February 1911 ko Sialkot ke aik muazziz gharaney mein peyda hue. Ap ke walid aik ilm pasand aadmi the. Aap ki waldah ka naam Sultan Fatima tha. Aap ne ibtedai taleem Maulvi Muhammed Ibrahim Mir Sialkoti se hasil ki. 1921 mein aap ne Scotch Mission School mein dakhla liya. Aap ne Mat...
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JAUN ELIA

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Jaun Elia: Biography and Literary Work Jaun Elia Poetry – The most popular Jon Elia was born in December 14, 1931 & died on November 8, 2002. He was a Famous poet of Urdu Language, philosopher, biographer, and scholar of Pakistan. He was the brother of journalist Rais Amrohvi and Syed Muhammad Taqi, and husband of columnist Zahida Hina. He was good at Arabic, English, Persian, Sanskrit and Hebrew. Jaun Elia first collection of poetry “Shayad” was published in 1991, when he was 60. Jaun Elia introduction in this collection provided in-depth of his works and the culture within which he was conveying his ideas. The introduction can also be considered as a fine example of modern Urdu writing style. Marriage Jaun Elia is married to a well-known columnist Zahida Hina. His married life did not succeed for a long period, so he separated from his wife later. World View about Jaun Elia The personality of Jaun Elia very different from the other poets and writ...
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