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'Bol ke lab azaad hai tere': Why the world must remember Faiz Ahmad Faiz and his poetry
May 15, 2025 10:39 am
Today, in a world that churns, collapses, scrolls, posts, forgets—we need Faiz more than ever. We need his words like we need water—fierce, flowing, and essential.
7 protest anthems that have rocked the world: From 'Hum Dekhenge' to 'Bella Ciao'
September 28, 2025 1:25 pm
From Mumbai to Kolkata, Bangladesh to South Korea and across Europe, protest anthems continue to ignite movements and rally the masses.
November 21, 1984, Forty Years Ago: Faiz Ahmed Faiz Dead
November 21, 2024 8:05 am
This is the front page of The Indian Express published on November 21, 1984.
Who is afraid of Faiz Ahmad Faiz?
May 28, 2022 1:06 pm
Naseeruddin Shah writes: The removal of Faiz’s verses from school textbooks indicates the chilling fact that protest of any kind is no longer permissible.
Faiz verses excluded from Class 10 textbook in latest CBSE tweak
July 04, 2022 9:20 am
The portion of the curriculum document, which lists the Social Science course content for Class 10, states that the segment on religion, communalism and politics will continue to be part of the course content — “excluding image on page 46, 48, 49”.
Reading of Faiz poem ‘unsuitable to time, place’: IIT-K panel
March 16, 2020 11:44 am
A committee set up by the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur has also found the role of five teachers and six students, who participated in the protest, “to be less than desirable” and recommended that the institute should “counsel” them.
Maharashtra: Raut targets BJP for calling Faiz ‘anti-Hindu’, ‘anti-national’
January 20, 2020 3:30 am
“After the attack in Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Faiz is being labelled as anti-Hindu and anti-national. Faiz is not alive to defend himself. You can’t confine a poet like Faiz into the confines and boundaries of a nation or a religion,” Raut said in his weekly column Rokhthok in Saamana.
Found in Translation
January 15, 2020 1:08 am
Two poems written in two different times and contexts are engaging with new rhythms through creative transpositions.
Poetry and songs have become the soul of the nation-wide protests against the new citizenship law
January 12, 2020 2:30 pm
With the republic preparing to celebrate its 71st year, citizens of all ages, led by the young, are singing Faiz Ahmad Faiz’s Hum dekhenge, Habib Jalib’s Dastoor and Rahat Indori’s Kisi ke baap ka Hindustan thodi hai.
The many videos of Faiz Ahmed Faiz poem 'Hum Dekhenge' that have gone viral
January 09, 2020 6:37 pm
The Faiz Ahmad Faiz poem has been sung from college campuses to protests, and even in New York and Cape Town.
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