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Faiz’s ‘Hum dekhenge’ is not about country or religion. It is anti-oppression
May 25, 2025 12:43 pm
Three people have been booked for reciting the poem in Nagpur. But the protest anthem speaks neither for Pakistan nor for India but for a more inclusive world
Javed Akhtar says he felt like he'd won 'World War 3' after returning from Pakistan: 'Had to say these things. Should we keep quiet?'
February 25, 2023 11:34 am
Javed Akhtar, at the recently concluded Faiz Festival in Lahore, had said that the perpetrators of 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks are roaming freely in Pakistan. Upon his return to India, he said, he felt like he'd just won the 'Third World War'.
Javed Akhtar reminds Pakistanis that 26/11 attackers are from their country: 'You shouldn't be offended if Indians complain about this'
February 21, 2023 5:32 pm
Javed Akhtar also pointed out that even though India has hosted several renowned Pakistani artists, Pakistan never hosted Lata Mangeshkar.
Amritsar, college days and Nayyara Noor
August 24, 2022 10:29 pm
Nayyara Noor, who died of cancer last Sunday in Karachi, was a prolific singer featured on PTV.
Faiz teaches us to question. His work shouldn’t be erased from syllabus
April 28, 2022 8:54 am
Chapal Mehra writes: The removal of Faiz’s poetry from school textbooks, along with other content about humanism, democracy, and diversity, defeats the whole purpose of education
To reduce Faiz to a single identity is to crush his universal language
January 23, 2020 9:38 am
To judge Faiz for hurting Hindu sentiments is an unfair indictment of his composite vision and heritage that was shaped by India. Poets like Faiz are above political ideologies and affiliations.
‘He is still haunting unjust rulers from beyond the grave,’ says Faiz’s grandson
January 07, 2020 6:15 am
Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s grandson, Ali Madeeh Hashmi, on the controversy over Hum Dekhenge and how poetry is an inspiration for political change.
First Pak, now India has failed the poet who belongs to both countries
January 05, 2020 6:43 pm
India is, in fact, not offended by Faiz Ahmad Faiz’s “communalism”; it is offended by Faiz’s pluralist message in 2019.
Not sad but funny to call Faiz Ahmed Faiz's 'Hum Dekhenge' anti-Hindu, says daughter Saleema Hashmi
January 02, 2020 10:05 pm
The controversy pertains to the reported recitation of Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s “Hum Dekhenge” by IIT-Kanpur students during a protest against the amended Citizenship Act.
The story of Faiz’s Hum Dekhenge — from Pakistan to India, over 40 years
December 27, 2019 11:20 am
Hum Dekhenge was a powerful and popular poem, but it assumed iconic status and became a universal anthem of protest and hope after it was rendered by Iqbal Bano in 1986, and live recordings of that performance were smuggled out of Pakistan.
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