Aur Bhi Gham Hain Zamane Mein
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Aur Bhi Gham Hain Zamane Mein (Hindi
: और भी ग़म हैं ज़माने में) was an India
n television serial
broadcast fortnightly on Doordarshan
in the early 1980s. It spanned 32 episodes and combined entertainment with education, as each episode highlighted a social problem. The name of the serial was an allusion to Faiz Ahmed Faiz
's famous Urdu
poem with a slightly different title, "Aur Bhi Dukh Hain Zamane Mein," in which a man explains to his beloved that he is distracted from being focused on her completely by the social injustice and pain he sees around him.
Hindi
Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...
: और भी ग़म हैं ज़माने में) was an India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n television serial
Soap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...
broadcast fortnightly on Doordarshan
DoorDarshan
Doordarshan is an Indian public service broadcaster, a division of Prasar Bharati. It is one of the largest broadcasting organizations in India in terms of the infrastructure of studios and transmitters. Recently, it has also started Digital Terrestrial Transmitters. On September 15, 2009,...
in the early 1980s. It spanned 32 episodes and combined entertainment with education, as each episode highlighted a social problem. The name of the serial was an allusion to Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Faiz Ahmad Faiz was a Pakistani intellectual, poet, and one of the most famous poets of the Urdu language. He was a member of the Anjuman Tarraqi Pasand Mussanafin-e-Hind and an avowed Marxist. In 1962, he was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize by the Soviet Union...
's famous Urdu
Urdu
Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...
poem with a slightly different title, "Aur Bhi Dukh Hain Zamane Mein," in which a man explains to his beloved that he is distracted from being focused on her completely by the social injustice and pain he sees around him.