Questions tagged [urdu-literature]
Questions about works of literature written in Urdu, an Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in Pakistan and India.
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Has the text of Premchand's banned short-story collection Soz-e-Watan survived?
In 1907, Dhanpat Rai, who later adopted the pen name Premchand, published his first collection of short stories, entitled Soz-e-Watan. These stories were "full of patriotic fervour" (Mahmud, ...
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Is there a published English translation of Muhammad Iqbal's "The Parliament of Satan"?
Muhammad Iqbal was a 19th-to-20th-century Muslim poet, philosopher, and politican, one of the most important figures in Urdu poetry and also influential in Farsi poetry, who received a British ...
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Lack of Proper Ending in Stories by Old Indian Authors
I have read quite a few stories by old Indian authors who wrote in Hindi and Urdu in the early twentieth century.
I noticed a trend of them not completing their stories or providing an ending and ...
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What is the meaning of this sher?
hamla hai chaar sū dar-o-dīvār-e-shahr kā
sab jañgaloñ ko shahr ke andar sameT lo
حملہ ہے چار سُو در و دیوارِ شہر کا
سب جنگلوں کو شہر کے اندر سمیٹ لو
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I get the meaning of each ...
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What is the meaning of the second line of this sher?
asar bhī le rahā huuñ terī chup kā
tujhe qaa.il bhī kartā jā rahā huuñ
I'm researching on Urdu shayars and it's a part of my assignment to collect 500 urdu shers with their meaning. The original ...