Henry Ford
Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. Although Ford did not invent the automobile or the assembly line, he developed and manufactured the first automobile that many middle class Americans could afford. In doing so, Ford converted the automobile from an expensive curiosity into a practical conveyance that would profoundly impact the landscape of the twentieth century. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. As owner of the Ford Motor Company, he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world. He is credited with "Fordi
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Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor, businessman and politician, and served as the 38th Governor of the state of California.
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Arnold gained worldwide fame as a Hollywood action film icon. Schwarzenegger was nicknamed "The Austrian Oak" and "The Styrian Oak" in his bodybuilding days, "Arnold Strong" and "Arnie" during his acting career, and more recently "The Governator" (A portmanteau word of Governor and Terminator, one of his film roles).
As a Republican, he was first elected on October 7, 2003, in a special recall election to replace then-Governor Gray Davis. Schwarzenegger was sworn in on November 17, 2003, to serve the remainder of Davis's term. Schwarzenegger was then re-elected on November 7, 2006, in -
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John Clark Scott has had a long and diverse career in the computer industry.
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From childhood, Scott showed a keen interest in technology, often disassembling machines to understand their workings. As a teenager, he self-taught electronics and radio technology, earning a commercial radio station license.
After briefly attending university, Scott discovered his passion for computing through self-study. He began his career in Silicon Valley during its early boom years. Noticing confusion about computers among his peers, he started giving explanatory lectures, which inspired his book, "But How Do It Know? - The Basic Principles of Computers for Everyone".
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William C. Rempel
Bill Rempel’s long and eventful career at the Los Angeles Times, both as a writer and an editor, produced an impressive collection of high-profile projects and change-makers. His reporting triggered government investigations, exposed White House and Pentagon scandals, and prompted reforms of state courts and consumer protection laws.
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Groundbreaking reports on Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda were published before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and his extensive coverage of supertanker safety flaws began years before the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster.
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John D. Rockefeller
John Davison Rockefeller Sr. was an American industrialist and philanthropist. He was, in 1870, one of the founders of the Standard Oil Company, which became the first great U.S. business trust. He was the driving force of this business until his retirement in 1897, and became the richest man in the world.
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Rockefeller Sr. was also a very important philanthropist, founder of both the University of Chicago and Rockefeller University and funder of the Central Philippine University in the Philippines. Beside this he was responsable for the creation of foundations that had a major effect on medicine, education and scientific research.
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Steve Robinson
Steve Robinson served executive vice president and chief marketing officer of Chick-fil-A, Inc. from 1981-2015. He now serves as a consultant and speaks to organizations and businesses about leadership development and brand strategy. A native of Foley, Alabama, Steve is the son of a farmer and entrepreneur. He holds an associate degree in business administration from Faulkner State Junior College, a bachelor of science in marketing from Auburn University, and a master’s in advertising from Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Steve and his wife, Dianne, live in Atlanta. They have two children and four grandchildren.
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Sam Walton
Samuel Moore Walton was an American business magnate best known for founding the retailers Walmart and Sam's Club, which he started in Rogers, Arkansas and Midwest City, Oklahoma in 1962 and 1983 respectively. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. grew to be the world's largest corporation by revenue as well as the biggest private employer in the world. For a period of time, Walton was the richest person in the United States. His family has remained the richest family in the U.S. for several consecutive years, with a net worth of around US$240.6 billion as of January 2022. In 1992 at the age of 74, Walton died of blood cancer and was laid to rest at the Bentonville Cemetery in his longtime home of Bentonville, Arkansas.
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Ray Kroc
Raymond Albert Kroc, popularly known as Ray Kroc, was an American businessman, who brought about a revolution in the fast food industry, making McDonald’s the biggest fast food chain in the world.
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Once referred to by Harvard Business School as “the service sector’s equivalent of Henry Ford”, Kroc but had a modest beginning. Initially, he sold various items such as paper cups, milkshake mixers before coming in contact with McDonald brothers, who ran a small but popular fast food joint in California, at the age of 51.
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Sir James Dyson is a British industrial designer and founder of his company called Dyson.
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Andrew Carnegie
Scottish-born American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie amassed a fortune in the steel industry and donated millions of dollars for the benefit of the public.
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He led the enormous expansion in the late 19th century. He built a leadership role for the British Empire. During the last 18 years of his life, he gave away $350 million (in 2011, $225 billion), almost nine-tenths, to charities, foundations, and universities. His article, proclaiming "The Gospel of Wealth," in 1889 called on the rich to use their wealth to improve society, and it stimulated a wave.
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Lynn Downey
I'm a second generation Californian, a historian of the West, and I aspire to be a full-fledged desert rat. I practice frequently on visits to Nevada and Arizona where I scour the desert for history and stories.
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My latest release is "Arequipa Sanatorium: Live in California's Lung Resort for Women." It's a history of the place where my grandmother and hundreds of other women were cured of the dreaded tuberculosis in the early 20th century. https://oupress.com/books/15231554/ar...
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Lesley Hazleton
1. My new book 'Jezebel: the untold story of the bible's harlot queen' is just out (Doubleday). Yes, she was framed. No, she was no harlot. Yes, she was magnificent.
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2. Won't bore you with the whole bio -- it's in the 'About the Author' page on www.jezebelbook.com. For now: British-born, lived for a long time in the Middle East, now live in the very Pacific Northwest.
3. Favorite drink is grappa.
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Manik Bandopadhyay
Manik Bandopadhyay (Bengali: মানিক বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়) was an Indian Bengali novelist and is considered one of the leading lights of modern Bangla fiction. During a short lifespan of forty-eight years, plagued simultaneously by illness and financial crisis, he produced 36 novels and 177 short-stories. His important works include Padma Nadir Majhi (The Boatman on The River Padma, 1936) and Putul Nacher Itikatha (The Puppet's Tale, 1936), Shahartali (The Suburbia, 1941) and Chatushkone (The Quadrilateral, 1948).
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Syed Waliullah
Syed Waliullah was born on 15 August 1922 at Sholashahar in Chittagong. After completing his Bachelor’s from Ananda Mohan College in Mymensingh, he enrolled at Calcutta University but did not complete his Master’s. Proficient in both Bangla and English, he worked for the Statesman during 1945-1947. After the Partition, he moved to Dhaka and joined Radio Pakistan as assistant news editor. In 1950 he was posted to Radio Pakistan, Karachi. From 1951 to 1960 he served as press attache at Pakistan missions in New Delhi, Sydney, Jakarta and London. It was in Sydney that Waliullah met Anne-Marie Thibaud, whom he later married and who translated Lal Shalu into French. In 1960 Waliullah moved to Paris where he served as first secretary at the Pakist
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Alex Rutherford
Alex Rutherford is the pen name of Diana Preston and her husband Michael. Both studied at Oxford University reading History and English respectively. They are keen travellers and have now clocked up visits to over 140 of the world's countries.
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Says Diana 'our greatest love is India where we've spent at least a year of our lives. Our research into the building of the Taj Mahal for our non-fiction book 'A Teardrop on the Cheek of Time', led us to explore the early history of the dynasty which built the Taj – the Moghuls. To help us get inside the heads of the founders of the Moghul dynasty for our fiction quintet 'Empire of the Moghul', we've read all the chronicles of the time. Over the years we've also retraced the steps of the Moghuls from -
Muhammed Zafar Iqbal
মুহম্মদ জাফর ইকবাল (Bengali)
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Muhammed Zafar Iqbal (Bengali: মুহম্মদ জাফর ইকবাল) is one of the most famous Bangladeshi author of Science-Fiction and Children's Literature ever to grace the Bengali literary community since the country's independence in 1971. He is a professor of Computer Science & Engineering at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST). Before that, Iqbal worked as a research scientist in Bell Communication Research for six years until 1994.
Birth and Family Background:
Iqbal was born on 23 December 1952 in Sylhet. His father, Foyzur Rahman Ahmed, was a police officer. In his childhood, he traveled various part of Bangladesh, because of his father's transferring job. Zafar Iqbal was encouraged by his father for writ -
Syed Mujtaba Ali
Syed Mujtaba Ali (Bengali: সৈয়দ মুজতবা আলী) was a Bengali author, academician, scholar and linguist.
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Syed Mujtaba Ali was born in Karimganj district (in present-day Assam, India). In 1919, he was inspired by Rabindranath Tagore and started writing to the poet. In 1921, Mujtaba joined the Indian freedom struggle and left his school in Sylhet. He went to Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan and graduated in 1926. He was among the first graduates of the university. Later, he moved to Kabul to work in the education department (1927–1929). From 1929 to 1932 he studied at the universities in Berlin, London, Paris and Bonn. He earned Ph.D. degree from University of Bonn with a dissertation on comparative religious studies in Khojas in 1932.
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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
This author has secondary bangla profile-বিভূতিভূষণ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়.
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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (Bangla: বিভূতিভূষণ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়) was an Indian Bangali author and one of the leading writers of modern Bangla literature. His best known work is the autobiographical novel, Pather Panchali: Song of the Road which was later adapted (along with Aparajito, the sequel) into the Apu Trilogy films, directed by Satyajit Ray.
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Zahir Raihan
Zahir Raihan (Bangla: জহির রায়হান) was a Bangladeshi novelist, writer and filmmaker. He is perhaps best known for his documentary Stop Genocide made during the Bangladesh Liberation War.
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He was an active worker of the Language Movement of 1952. The effect of Language Movement was so high on him that he made his legendary film Jibon Theke Neya based on it. In 1971 he joined in the Liberation War of Bangladesh and created documentary films on this great event.
He disappeared on January 30, 1972 while trying to locate his brother, the famous writer Shahidullah Kaiser, who was captured and killed by the Pakistan army. Evidences have been found that he was killed by some armed Bihari collaborators and disguised soldiers of Pakistan Army. -
Ahmed Sofa
Ahmed Sofa (Bangla: আহমদ ছফা) was a well-known Bangladeshi philosopher, poet, novelist, writer, critic, translator. Sofa was renowned for his intellectual righteousness as well as his holistic approach to the understanding of social dynamics and international politics. His career as a writer began in the 1960s. He never married. On 28 July 2001, Ahmed Sofa died in a hospital in Dhaka. He was buried in Martyred Intellectuals' Graveyard.
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Sofa helped establishing Bangladesh Lekhak Shibir (Bangladesh Writers' Camp) in 1970 to organize liberal writers in order to further the cause of the progressive movement.
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Humayun Ahmed
Humayun Ahmed (Bengali: হুমায়ূন আহমেদ; 13 November 1948 – 19 July 2012) was a Bangladeshi author, dramatist, screenwriter, playwright and filmmaker. He was the most famous and popular author, dramatist and filmmaker ever to grace the cultural world of Bangladesh since its independence in 1971. Dawn referred to him as the cultural legend of Bangladesh. Humayun started his journey to reach fame with the publication of his novel Nondito Noroke (In Blissful Hell) in 1972, which remains one of his most famous works. He wrote over 250 fiction and non-fiction books, all of which were bestsellers in Bangladesh, most of them were number one bestsellers of their respective years by a wide margin. In recognition to the works of Humayun, Times of Indi
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Pope Francis
Pope Francis (Latin: Franciscus; Italian: Francesco; Spanish: Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 17 December 1936) was the 266th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, a title he held ex officio as Bishop of Rome, and Sovereign of the Vatican City. He chose Francis as his papal name in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi. Francis was the first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere and the first non-European pope since the Syrian Gregory III, who died in 741.
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Khandaker Abdullah Jahangir
ড. আবদুল্লাহ জাহাঙ্গীর ছিলেন একাধারে ইসলামী চিন্তাবিদ, টিভি আলোচক, ইসলামী বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের (ইবি) আল হাদিস অ্যান্ড ইসলামিক স্টাডিস বিভাগের অধ্যাপক আলেম, গবেষক ও লেখক ।
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তিনি পিস টিভি, ইসলামিক টিভি, এটিএন ও এনটিভিসহ বিভিন্ন টিভিতে ইসলামের সমসাময়িক বিষয় নিয়ে আলোচনা করতেন। ফরেন টেলিভিশন চ্যানেল আইটিভি ইউএস-এর উপদেষ্টা ছিরেন তিনি । এছাড়াও তিনি দেশ-বিদেশের বিভিন্ন সিম্পোজিয়াম, সেমিনার, মসজিদের খুতবায় ও টিভি আলোচনায় খ্রিস্টান মিশনারিদের দ্বারা প্রতারিত হয়ে দেশের সহজ-সরল মুসলমানদের ধর্মান্তরিত হওয়ার বিষয়গুলো আলোচনা করে জনসচেতনতা তৈরি করে আসছিলেন।
এই বরেণ্য ব্যক্তিত্বের জন্ম হয় ১৯৬১ সালের ১ ফেব্রুয়ারি ঝিনাইদহের ধোপাঘাট গোবিন্দপুর গ্রামে। তার পিতা খোন্দকার আনওয়ারুজ্জামান ও মা বেগম লুৎফুন্নাহার।
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আরিফ আজাদ একজন জীবন্ত আলোকবর্তিকা - লেখক আরিফ আজাদকে বর্ণনা করতে গিয়ে একথাই বলেছেন ডঃ শামসুল আরেফিন। গার্ডিয়ান প্রকাশনী আরিফ আজাদের পরিচয় দিতে গিয়ে লিখেছে, “তিনি বিশ্বাস নিয়ে লেখেন, অবিশ্বাসের আয়না চূর্ণবিচুর্ণ করেন।” আরিফ আজাদ এর বই মানেই একুশে বইমেলায় বেস্ট সেলার, এতটাই জনপ্রিয় এ লেখক। সাম্প্রতিককালে বাংলাদেশের সাহিত্য অঙ্গনে সবচেয়ে আলোড়ন তোলা লেখকদের একজন আরিফ আজাদ।
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১৯৯০ সালের ৭ই জানুয়ারি চট্টগ্রামে জন্ম নেয়া এ লেখক মাধ্যমিক শিক্ষাজীবন শেষ করে চট্টগ্রাম জিলা স্কুলে। একটি সরকারি কলেজে উচ্চ মাধ্যমিক পাস করে চট্টগ্রাম বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ে ভর্তি হন এবং সেখানে উচ্চশিক্ষা সম্পন্ন করেন।
লেখালেখির ক্যারিয়ারের শুরু থেকেই আরিফ আজাদ এর বই সমূহ পাঠক মহলে ব্যাপক সাড়া ফেলে। তার প্রথম বই ‘প্যারাডক্সিক্যাল সাজিদ’ ২০১৭ সালের একুশে বইমেলায় প্রকাশ পায়। বইটির কেন -
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হামিদা মুবাশ্বেরা বর্তমানে যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের টেম্পল বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় অর্থনীতিতে পিএইচডি করছেন। এর আগে মালয়শিয়ার আন্তর্জাতিক ইসলামি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় (IIUM) থেকে ইসলামিক ফিনান্সে মাসটার্স করেছেন। ব্যাচেলর করেছেন ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়র ব্যবসায় প্রশাসন ইনস্টিটিউট (IBA) থেকে। প্রাতিষ্ঠানিক ভাবে ইসলাম নিয়ে পড়াশোনা করেছেন ইসলামিক অনলাইন বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় (IOU) থেকে, সেখানে ইসলামিক স্টাডিজে দ্বিতীয় ব্যাচেলর সম্পন্ন করেছেন। ব্যক্তিগত জীবনে তিনি এক কন্যা সন্তানের জননী।
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হরেক রকমের বই পড়া ও লেখালেখি হামিদা মুবাশ্বেরার কাছে এক ধরনের নেশার মতো। বাবার আকস্মিক মৃত্যু তাকে জীবনের উদ্দেশ্য নিয়ে ভাবতে উৎসাহিত করে। কী হয় মৃত্যুর পর? এটা নিয়ে কোন ধর্ম কী বলে? কেন আমরা মুসলিম? অন্যান্য ধর্মের অনুসারীদের সাথে আমাদের পার্থক্য কোথায়? নিজের শিকড়, আত্মপরিচয় অনুসন্ধানের ব্যাক্তিগত যে -
Khandaker Abdullah Jahangir
ড. আবদুল্লাহ জাহাঙ্গীর ছিলেন একাধারে ইসলামী চিন্তাবিদ, টিভি আলোচক, ইসলামী বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের (ইবি) আল হাদিস অ্যান্ড ইসলামিক স্টাডিস বিভাগের অধ্যাপক আলেম, গবেষক ও লেখক ।
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তিনি পিস টিভি, ইসলামিক টিভি, এটিএন ও এনটিভিসহ বিভিন্ন টিভিতে ইসলামের সমসাময়িক বিষয় নিয়ে আলোচনা করতেন। ফরেন টেলিভিশন চ্যানেল আইটিভি ইউএস-এর উপদেষ্টা ছিরেন তিনি । এছাড়াও তিনি দেশ-বিদেশের বিভিন্ন সিম্পোজিয়াম, সেমিনার, মসজিদের খুতবায় ও টিভি আলোচনায় খ্রিস্টান মিশনারিদের দ্বারা প্রতারিত হয়ে দেশের সহজ-সরল মুসলমানদের ধর্মান্তরিত হওয়ার বিষয়গুলো আলোচনা করে জনসচেতনতা তৈরি করে আসছিলেন।
এই বরেণ্য ব্যক্তিত্বের জন্ম হয় ১৯৬১ সালের ১ ফেব্রুয়ারি ঝিনাইদহের ধোপাঘাট গোবিন্দপুর গ্রামে। তার পিতা খোন্দকার আনওয়ারুজ্জামান ও মা বেগম লুৎফুন্নাহার।
তিনি ১৯৭৩ সালে ঢাকা সরকারি আলিয়া মাদ্রাসা থেকে দাখিল পাশ কর -
Richard Gwyn
from Wikipedia: Richard John Philip Jermy Gwyn, OC (born May 26, 1934) is a Canadian civil servant, journalist and author.
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Yoram Hazony
Yoram Hazony is an Israeli philosopher, Bible scholar, and political theorist. He is president of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem and serves as the chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation. His books include The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture, The Virtue of Nationalism, and Conservatism: A Rediscovery.
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Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist. He is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
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Born and raised in the Austrian Empire, Tesla first studied engineering and physics in the 1870s without receiving a degree. He then gained practical experience in the early 1880s working in telephony and at Continental Edison in the new electric power industry. In 1884 he emigrated to the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen. He worked for a short time at the Edison Machine Works in New York City before he struck out on his own. With the help of partners to finance and market his ideas, Tesla set up laborato -
Harriet Reisen
Harriet Reisen's interest in Louisa May Alcott dates to her marathon reading of Alcott’s eight children’s novels during a rainy spell one childhood summer. Over the past twenty years, what began as an idea for a film biography of Alcott developed into a passion for the subject herself. A former fellow in screenwriting at the American Film Institute, Reisen has written dramatic and historical documentary scripts for PBS and HBO, and radio commentary for Morning Edition and Marketplace. She lives in Massachusetts.
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Michelle B. Slater
Michelle B. Slater, PhD is a scholar of comparative literature and president of the Mayapple Center for the Arts and Humanities. Her first book, Starving to Heal in Siberia delves into how she was cured of the debilitating effects of advanced Lyme disease. Her latest book, Soulmate Dog, is about pushing the boundaries of the relationship between the human and the non-human animal. Michelle holds a Ph.D. in French Literature from Johns Hopkins and spends her time between Connecticut and Switzerland. Michelle is the author of the forthcoming novel The Lunatic.
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Waris Shah
Peer Syed Waris Shah (1722–1798) was a Punjabi Sufi poet of Chisti order, renowned for his contribution to Punjabi literature. He is best known for his seminal work Heer Ranjha, based on the traditional folk tale of Heer and her lover Ranjha. Heer is considered one of the quintessential works of classical Punjabi literature. The story of Heer was also told by several other writers, including notable versions by Damodar Das, Mukbal, and Ahmed Gujjar, but Waris Shah's version is by far the most popular today.
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Background
Waris Shah was born in Jandiala Sher Khan, Punjab,(Present day Pakistan) into a reputed Syed family. His father was Gulsher Shah. Waris acknowledged himself as a disciple of Ustad of Kasur. Waris's parents are said to have died