February is the birth month of arguably the best Urdu poet of all time - Faiz Ahmed Faiz. He touched millions of hearts around the world by exhibiting masterful ingenuity in his writings and by ...

Musicians Amira Gill (25) from Delhi and Seattle-based Vasundhara Gupta (27) are voicing the verses that build a haunting narrative of Partition. Their composition, the eponymous rendition of ...

One of the most celebrated and popular shayars of the 20th century, Faiz Ahmad Faiz was a versatile creative mind. Faiz was also the poet’s takhallus (a pen name). He is credited with countless ...

The 36 th death anniversary of legendary poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz will be observed today. Fans, followers and family members have organised events in his honour across the world. However, most of these ...

KARACHI: It is hard to grasp the personality and thought process of a poet. It is even harder if the poet is Faiz Ahmed Faiz, the beloved of Pakistani people and men of letters across the globe.

‘Hum Mehnat Kash Walon Se’ from ‘Maazdor’. After his release from prison, Faiz had become extremely popular, partly as a result of his constant demonization by the mainstream press. In Pakistan, he ...

Faiz Ahmad Faiz was a poet by passion, a journalist and army officer by profession, and a Marxist communist by ideology, whose poetry masterfully blends personal longing with political defiance. There ...

Just as there was no dearth of the Right slandering an enlightened, secular poet like Faiz in Pakistan, there is no lack of such people in India too. The laughable charge that his iconic poem, ‘Hum ...

More Transgressions: Poems Inspired by Faiz Ahmed Faiz By Anjum Altaf LG Publishers (Delhi) ISBN: 9383723939 60pp. The timeless quality of Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s poetry and its multi-layered resonances ...

January 18 was Manto’s 64th death anniversary and it should be noted that Manto has been experiencing something of a renaissance for quite a few years. Manto’s best short stories like ‘Toba Tek Singh’ ...