The Progressive Writers' Association or the Progressive Writers' Movement of India or Anjuman Tarraqi Pasand Mussanafin-e-Hind (Urdu: انجمن ترقی پسند...

Dawn, the Progressive Writers Movement in Urdu literature was the strongest movement after Sir Syed's education movement. The modernist movement started...

era, he was a member of the Communist Party of India and the Progressive Writers' Movement. Upon independence and partition, he moved to the newly created...

young age and became a co-founder of the All-India Progressive Writers' Movement along with the writer Sajjad Zaheer who had become well known by the publication...

an Indian poet of Urdu ghazals and nazms, and a part of the Progressive Writers' Movement, who was also a lyricist for Bollywood. He was the son of Muztar...

and writers of Urdu. AMU was indeed a nursery of literary talent during those years. Here he came in contact with the Progressive Writers' Movement under...

Empire." Nawab Mohammad Ismail Khan Moplah Riots Pakistan Movement Progressive Writers' Movement Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam Maulana Shaukat Ali Nehru Report...

thinkers, writers, and activists played key roles in creating or building the movements and ideas that came to define the shape of the Progressive Era. Inspiration...

and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the Progressive Writers' Movement in Indian literature. The release of the book was marked by...

1944. In 1936, he presided over the first conference of the Progressive Writers' Movement in Lucknow. He also presided over their subsequent assemblies...

the 1950s and early 1960s, and was an important figure in the Progressive Writers' Movement. He is considered one of the finest avant-garde Urdu poets of...

front organizations such as the National Students Federation, Progressive Writers' Movement and Railway Workers' Union were banned. As a result, the CPP...

Ali, and Mahmuduz Zafar. Jahan was an active member of the Progressive Writers' Movement and the Indian People's Theatre Association. She has been called...

poetry". He continued to show his progressive streak even after the disintegration of the Progressive Writers' Movement after 1953; and, through the rest...

would later become members of the Indian Progressive Writers' Association (IPWA). It was here that he met writer Ali Sardar Jafri and found a new spurt...

writer of the progressive writers' movement and a playwright, who later worked in Hindi cinema as a film director, screenwriter and dialogue writer and...

remained inextricable from one another. He was a founding member of the Progressive Writers' Association and also he helped in drafting the manifesto of the...

novelist in the Urdu language and a prominent member of the Progressive Writers' Movement. Salma Siddiqui was born in 1931 in Varanasi. Her father Rashid...

literary movement, the Progressive Writers' Association in Pakistan, known for left-wing politics since its foundation in 1940. Many writers frequented...

was a Pakistani Urdu poet, writer, and literary critic. He is considered one of the pioneers of the progressive movement in Urdu literature. M. D. Taseer...

time in Moscow and London, becoming a notable member of the Progressive Writers' Movement. After the downfall of military dictator Ayub Khan's government...

researcher, and literal figure. He was associated with the Progressive Writers' Movement, Pakistan. Jamaldini received the Pride of Performance Award...

1912 – 13 February 2005) was an Indian poet and writer. He was a member of Progressive Writers Movement. He was a contemporary of Ale Ahmed Suroor, Jan...

secretary-general of the Anjuman-e-Taraqqi Pasand Musannifeen (Progressive Writers' Movement) for Punjab. In 1949, he was elected the secretary-general of...

building in Lucknow, India. It is best known as the place where the Progressive Writers Movement was created. The building was constructed around 1860 by the...

herself against the charges of "obscenity". Fellow writer and member of the Progressive Writers' Movement Sadat Hassan Manto was also charged with similar...

credited as a writer who initiated Progressive literary movement. He was also an active part of pan-Indian progressive writers' movement. In 1936, he took...

شیخ) (March 1923 – 28 December 1997) was a Sindhi language poet, prose writer and former vice-chancellor of University of Sindh. He is counted as one...

daily newspaper published from Patna. He setup a branch of Progressive Writers' Movement at Patna in 1936. Azimabadi was born in 1911 to a respected...

and Ismat Chughtai were the Urdu fiction writers at the forefront of Indo-Pakistan's Progressive Writers Movement. His other novels include Baarish mein...