Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta (often shortened to Shikasta) is a 1979 science fiction novel by Doris Lessing, and is the first book in her five-book...
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Nastaliq (redirect from Shikasta Nastaʿlīq)
Nastaliq (/ˌnæstəˈliːk, ˈnæstəliːk/; نستعلیق, Persian: [næstʰæʔliːq]; Urdu: [nəst̪ɑːliːq]), also romanized as Nastaʿlīq or Nastaleeq, is one of the main...
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continuous storyline. Each book covers unrelated events, with the exception of Shikasta and The Sirian Experiments, which tell the story of accelerated evolution...
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second book in her five-book Canopus in Argos series, the first being Shikasta (1979). It was first published in the United States in March 1980 by Alfred...
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written with thinner strokes or in new shapes. This new style known as shikasta taliq (broken, i.e., truncated and simplified taliq) (sometimes also called...
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relates directly to the first book in this series, Shikasta, which is the history of the planet Shikasta (an allegorical Earth) under the influence of three...
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also known as Anandpuri Lipi or Shehkasteh) is a calligraphic (Punjabi: Shikasta) style of the Gurmukhi script associated with Guru Gobind Singh. It is...
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Four-Gated City (1969) The Canopus in Argos: Archives series (1979–1983) Shikasta (1979) The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five (1980) The Sirian...
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(first introduced in Shikasta) arrives on Planet 8 with the devastating news that disaster has struck Rohanda: it has been renamed Shikasta (the stricken) and...
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Fath Ali Shah Qajar firman in Shikasta Nastaʿlīq script, January 1831....
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Mohammed Rafi, Usha Mangeshkar "Teri Chaahat Mein Jiye" Mere Gharib Nawaz "Shikasta Saaz Hain" Kamal Rajasthani Mehboob Sarwar solo Naag Mere Saathi "Chhaliye...
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most prominent of which are Shahenshah - 1970 Raau - 1972 Jhunja Rajeshri Shikasta Mantravegala Jhep He also wrote his autobiography spanning three volumes...
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the early Abbasid caliphs. 9th-century Quran in the Reza Abbasi Museum Shikasta nastaliq script, 18th–19th centuries The Quran has sparked much commentary...
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a future ice age. Other Lessing novels, like Memoirs of a Survivor and Shikasta, also deal with apocalyptic themes. Other 1995– War Ayreon Arjen Anthony...
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Lewis" 1978: "Close Encounters, Star Wars, and the Tertium Quid" 1979: "Shikasta, by Doris Lessing" 1980: "Two from "Venom"" 1980: "Freddy's Book and Vlemk...
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Triffids by John Wyndham. £2.55 ×2: Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke, Shikasta by Doris Lessing. Webb & Webb Design Limited 600 2021-05-04 The Wars of...
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doesn't contain the description of Aurangzeb's death. It is written in the Shikasta calligraphic style. Its completion is dated to the first year of the reign...
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Now is a Canadian rock band from Toronto. The group's members include X-Shikasta frontman Russell Fernandes (vocals, bass and guitar), Adam Burnett (vocals...
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suffix ی (i) denoting possession. a big game hunter. Shikasta Etymology: Persian شکسته shikasta broken, from shikastan شكستن to break, from Middle Persian...
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that they were written in a form of Persian fast-running-hand known as shikasta. There are also limited "incursions" of Gurmukhi in the records. The documents...
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school. She was among the first few Sindhi female writers. Her first book Shikasta Zindagi (Sindhi: شڪسته زندگي)(Unsuccessful Life) was published in 1950...
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Keefe", a bush league baseball player, to a friend back home Lessing, Doris Shikasta 1979 Letters and reports Presented as reports on the state of Earth's inhabitants...
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synthesis between "The Masque of the Red Death", Our Man in Havana, and Shikasta. It was first published in TriQuarterly Review, Issue 99 (Spring/Summer...
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Muhammad Ashraf Baad-E-Saba Ka Intizar (Short Stories) 2004 Salam Bin Razzaq Shikasta Buton Ke Darmiyan (Short Stories) 2005 Jabir Husain Ret Per Khema (Memoirs)...
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Murteza Gulu Khan Shamlu-Ardabili (invented a style of calligraphy called "Shikasta Nastaʿlīq") Abbas Gholi Khan Shamlu-Shahsevan (Governor of Herat, 1812)...
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A Fat'h Ali Shah Qajar firman in Shikasta Nastaʿlīq script, January 1831....
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Foundation series by Isaac Asimov, Earthsea trilogy by Ursula K. Le Guin and Shikasta by Doris Lessing and countless comics, including Calvin and Hobbes and...
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writer and translator who was based in Mumbai. His short story collection Shikasta Buton Ke Darmiyan won the 2004 Sahitya Akademi Award for Urdu. He died...
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Umdat-ut-Twarikh originally consisted of around 7,000 pages in-total written in shikasta running Persian script. Sohan Lal penned events at the Lahore Durbar in...
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Lessing 1994c, p.190. Lessing 1994c, p.94. Lessing, Doris (1994a) [1979]. Shikasta. London: Flamingo. ISBN 0-00-712776-6. Lessing, Doris (1994b) [1980]. The...
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