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8 March
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Sahir Ludhianvi is born
The Urdu poet and Hindi film lyricist Sahir Ludhianvi was born in Ludhiana; he later became one of the major poetic voices of Indian cinema.
This date is in the wider Indian-history calendar but does not yet have a dedicated Curious Indian article.