In the 1990s, India’s government disputed RiceTec’s patent on basmati by citing one of this language’s qisse romances, Heer Ranjha. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this language used by Bulleh Shah to write devotional songs like “Tere ishq nachaya.” Medieval Sufi poets introduced the Shāhmukhī script for this language, which is also written with the Gurmukhī script.
ANSWER: Punjabi [or Panjabi]
[10h] The author of Heer Ranjha, Waris Shah, is addressed in this Punjabi author’s poem about the Partition of India. This author of Injal ran the magazine Nagmani with her long-term partner, the painter Imroz.
ANSWER: Amrita Pritam
[10m] This poet legendarily took his last breath while listening to a Bulleh Shah kafi. This Urdu “poet of the East,” who wrote two poems about God’s “response” to a “complaint,” penned the folk anthem “Sare jahan se accha.”
ANSWER: Muhammad Iqbal [or Mohammed Iqbal; or Allāma; or Allāma Iqbal]
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