Faiz Ahmed Faiz
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Faiz, Subh-e-Azadi, and Pakistan’s 78th Birthday:
On Pakistan’s 78th Independence Day, the author reflects on feeling little zeal for the occasion, and questions whether Faiz’s “Subh-e-Azadi” is a happy or sad poem, recalling a disagreement between…
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Against Platonic Love
The writer introduces an interview with the Urdu poet Ahmad Faraz, whom he ranks behind Faiz, and translates Faraz’s answer rejecting platonic love in favour of passionate, complete love for…
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Ammar Rashid and the frailty of Pakistan’s state narrative
Defending Ammar Rashid, an Awami Workers Party officeholder, artist and teacher arrested while protesting the detention of PTM leader Manzoor Pashteen, the author argues his case exposes how fragile the…
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Pakistan, communists and a stained dawn
The reposted piece uses the band Laal and Faiz’s poem ‘Umeed-e-Seher’, an anthem of Pakistan’s 2007 lawyers’ movement, to explore Marxists in Pakistan and argue that international media ignore stories…
