#Urdu

Who wrote Sarfaroshi ki tamanna and why is it associated with Ramprasad Bismil? Why is it still sung at protest sites across India, including PoK?

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Another word that keeps popping up in our reading of Paul Scott’s Raj Quartet (see this post) is gymkhana, and eventually I thought to investigate it, since I was fuzzy about both meaning and etymology. Wiktionary says:

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