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  2. Shafiq-ur-Rahman (humorist) - Wikipedia

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    Shafiq-ur-Rahman (Urdu: شفیق الرحمن) (9 November 1920 – 19 March 2000) was a Pakistani humorist and short-story writer of Urdu language. [1] [2] He was one of the most illustrious writers of the Urdu-speaking world. Like Mark Twain and Stephen Leacock, [3] he has given enduring pleasure to his readers.

  3. Agnosia - Wikipedia

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    Sometimes referred to as expressive agnosia, this is a form of agnosia in which the person is unable to perceive facial expression, body language and intonation, rendering them unable to non-verbally perceive people's emotions and limiting that aspect of social interaction. Simultagnosia: The inability to process visual input as a whole.

  4. C. M. Naim - Wikipedia

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    Choudhri Mohammed Naim (born 3 June 1936) is an American scholar of Urdu language and literature. He is currently professor emeritus at the University of Chicago. Naim is the founding editor of both Annual of Urdu Studies and Mahfil (now Journal of South Asian Literature), as well as the author of the definitive textbook for Urdu pedagogy in English.

  5. Direct and indirect realism - Wikipedia

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    Direct realism, also known as naïve realism, argues we perceive the world directly. In the philosophy of perception and philosophy of mind, direct or naïve realism, as opposed to indirect or representational realism, are differing models that describe the nature of conscious experiences; [1] [2] out of the metaphysical question of whether the world we see around us is the real world itself ...

  6. Dhakaiya Urdu - Wikipedia

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    Dhakaiya Urdu, sometimes referred to as Sobbasi Language [citation needed] or Khosbasi Language, [citation needed] is a Bengalinized dialect of Urdu that is native to Old Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is being spoken by the Sobbas or Khosbas community, Nawab Family and some other communities such as the Shia community of Old Dhaka.

  7. Naseem Hijazi - Wikipedia

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    The book ends around the death of Ali. The second book on the battles in the same area, Aur Talwar Toot Gayee (And the Sword Broke), is about Haider's son Sultan Tipu, where the same character is finding his dreams being fulfilled in Tipu's valiant endeavours against the British East India Company. The book culminates in Sultan Tipu's sad and ...

  8. Devta (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Devta (Urdu: دیوتا deotā, "deity") is a serialized fantasy thriller novel written in the Urdu language by Mohiuddin Nawab. [1] It was published monthly for 33 years in the Pakistani magazine Suspense Digest from February 1977 to January 2010. Devta is the fictional autobiography of Farhad Ali Taimoor, a man who gained telepathic powers. [2]

  9. Jamil Jalibi - Wikipedia

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    He performed extensive research on the history of Urdu literature and penned five chronicle volumes with the title Tareekh-e-Adab-e-Urdu, covering 15-20 centuries. [ 6 ] In 1983, Jalibi became Vice-chancellor of Karachi University , where he served until 1987. [ 5 ]