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Faiz Ahmed Faiz
male, deceased - Faiz Ahmed "Faiz" is considered by many to be a poet in the great tradition of Urdu poets like Ghalib and Iqbal. He was born in Sialkot, in the...
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Aijaz Ahmad
male - Aijaz Ahmad is a well-known Marxist literary theorist and political commentator based in India. Born in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India just...
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Sunil Gangopadhyay
male - Sunil Gangopadhyay was born on 7 September, 1934 in Faridpur in what is now Bangladesh. Sunil got his Master's degree in Bengali from the...
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Fazal Mahmood
male, deceased - Fazal Mahmood, also known as Hero of The Oval, (February 18 1927 - May 30 2005), was a Pakistani cricketer, regarded as one of the finest seam...
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Krishan Chander
male, deceased - Krishan Chander was an Urdu and Hindi "afsaana nigaar", or short story writer. He wrote in the Urdu language. He was a prolific writer, penning...
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Rahi Masoom Raza
male - Dr. Rahi Masoom Reza, born in Ghazipur in eastern Uttar Pradesh (India) in a Muslim family, was a famous Urdu shayar. He also wrote in Hindustani...
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Paddy Devlin
male, deceased - Paddy Devlin (March 8 1925-August 15 1999) was a Northern Irish social democrat and Labour activist, a former Stormont MP, a founder of the Social...
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Akhtaruzzaman Elias
male - Akhtaruzzaman Elias (1943-1997) was a notable Bangladeshi author. Though he wrote only two novels, critics place Elias in the pantheon of great...
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Sadhana
female - Sadhana is an Indian Bollywood actress. Her family moved from Karachi during Partition in 1947. Her cousin was actor Hari Shivdasani (father of...
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Gopinath Bordoloi
male, deceased - Gopinath Bordoloi (1890-1950) was the first Chief Minister of the Indian state of Assam, and also a leading Indian freedom-fighter
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