Literary Figures | MCQs

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Mast Tawakali, the Sufi poet of Balochistan, was committed to the poor people and at times sided with them against the tyrannical feudal order.

The contemporary of Khwaja Farid and Mian Muhammad Bakhsh, Tawakali wrote resistance poetry against the colonialists, when the sardars of Balochistan kowtowed to their British masters, said Fakhar Zaman at the Mast Tawakali conference

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Abdur Rehman Chughtai was a renowned Pakistani painter.

He is known for his distinctive Mughal-inspired artistic style.

He is also notable for designing Pakistan's first postage stamp in 1947.

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Rehman Baba was a legendary Pashto Sufi poet.

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Agha Hashar Kashmiri is the Shakespeare of Urdu literature.

He started to show interest in stage dramas and moved to Bombay at the age of 14

Agha Hashar Kashmiri's first play, Aftab-e-Muhabbat, was published in 1897

Born: Muhammad Shah 3 April 1879 Banaras, India

Died: 1 April 1935 (aged 56) Lahore

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Waris Shah called the Shakespeare of Punjabi literature.

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Ever since the end of the 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer has been known as the "father of English poetry," a model of writing to be imitated by English poets.

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John Keats (1795-1821) was an English Romantic poet who died of tuberculosis at the young age of 25.

He is known for his vivid imagery and sensual language in poems like "Ode to a Nightingale" and "Ode on a Grecian Urn".

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  Mian Mohammad Bakhsh is also called Romi of Kashmir.

  Mian Mohammad Bakhsh was a great sufi poet and scholar. 

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Bano Qudsia passed away on 4 February 2017.

She was born on 28 November 1928.

Bano Qudsia, a renowned Pakistani novelist and playwright.

She was known for her literary contributions, particularly the novel Raja Gidh.