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  2. Mir Taqi Mir - Wikipedia

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    According to Mir, Syed Sadaat Ali, a Sayyid of Amroha convinced him to pursue poetry in Urdu: [16] [17] "A Sayyid from Amroha took the trouble to put me on to writing poetry in the Urdu medium, the verse which resembled Persian poetry. Urdu was the language of Hindustan by the authority of the king and presently it was gaining currency.

  3. Persian literature - Wikipedia

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    The first group to write poems in the new style consisted of Mahmud Farani, Baregh Shafi’i, Solayman Layeq, Sohail, Ayeneh and a few others. Later, Vasef Bakhtari, Asadullah Habib and Latif Nazemi, and others joined the group. Each had his own share in modernizing Persian poetry in Afghanistan.

  4. History of writing in Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    Current and past writing systems for Vietnamese in the Vietnamese alphabet and in chữ Hán Nôm. Spoken and written Vietnamese today uses the Latin script-based Vietnamese alphabet to represent native Vietnamese words (thuần Việt), Vietnamese words which are of Chinese origin (Hán-Việt, or Sino-Vietnamese), and other foreign loanwords.

  5. Independence Day (Pakistan) - Wikipedia

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    Independence Day (Urdu: ‍ یومِ آزادی, romanized: Yaum-i Āzādī ‍), observed annually on 14 August, is a national holiday in Pakistan.It commemorates the day when Pakistan achieved independence from the United Kingdom and was declared a sovereign state following the termination of the British Raj between the 14th and 15th August 1947.

  6. Heer Ranjha - Wikipedia

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    Luddan ferries Ranjha across the Chenab. Heer (Izzat Bibi) is an extremely beautiful woman, born into a wealthy family of Sial Jat tribe [9] while Dheedo Ranjha, who is from Ranjha Jat clan, is the youngest of four brothers and lives in the village of Takht Hazara by the river Chenab in Punjab.

  7. Ismat Chughtai - Wikipedia

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    Ismat Chughtai (21 August 1915 – 24 October 1991) was an Indian Urdu novelist, short story writer, liberal humanist and filmmaker.Beginning in the 1930s, she wrote extensively on themes including female sexuality and femininity, middle-class gentility, and class conflict, often from a Marxist perspective.

  8. Bano Qudsia - Wikipedia

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    Bano Qudsia (Urdu: بانو قدسیہ ‎; 28 November 1928 – 4 February 2017), also known as Bano Aapa, [4] was a Pakistani novelist, playwright and spiritualist. She wrote literature in Urdu, producing novels, dramas plays and short stories. Qudsia is best recognized for her novel Raja Gidh. [5]

  9. Umera Ahmed - Wikipedia

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    Umera Ahmed (Punjabi, Urdu: عمیرہ احمد) is a Pakistani writer, author and screenwriter.She is best known for her novels and plays Shehr-e-Zaat, Pir-e-Kamil, Zindagi Gulzar Hai, Alif, Durr-e-Shehwar, Daam, Man-o-Salwa, Qaid-e-Tanhai, Digest Writer, Maat, Kankar, Meri Zaat Zarra-e-Benishan, Doraha and Hum Kahan Ke Sachay Thay.