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Bismil Azimabadi

Sarfaroshi Ki Tamanna

A patriotic ghazal remembered as a cry of courage in India’s freedom struggle.

Attribution note: The ghazal is commonly associated with Ram Prasad Bismil in popular memory, but literary sources attribute it to Bismil Azimabadi.

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Hindi · Devanagari

सरफ़रोशी की तमन्ना

पूर्ण पाठ यहाँ जोड़ा जाना है। कृपया प्रकाशित करने योग्य स्रोत पाठ उपलब्ध कराएँ।

English Transliteration

Sarfaroshi Ki Tamanna

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Urdu

سرفروشی کی تمنا

مکمل متن اجازت یا فراہم کردہ ماخذ کے بعد شامل کیا جائے گا۔

Poetic English Rendering

The Longing for Sacrifice

A page prepared for a poetic English rendering of the ghazal’s defiant spirit: courage facing power, sacrifice chosen knowingly, and freedom imagined as something worth more than fear.

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