Romantic and revolutionary may seem polar opposites, but this Urdu poet achieved a unique balance between them. Faiz Ahmed ‘Faiz’, who was born in 1911, was not the first revolutionary-romantic poet ...

They were born nine years apart. One died twenty-one years ahead of the other. However, they had an uncanny likeness to one another in so many respects. This is the story of Nazim Hikmet of Turkiye ...

In Urdu Poetry: The Progressive Episode (OUP 2017), author Carlo Coppola tells us about the life of Faiz Ahmed Faiz. A Professor Emeritus of Hindi-Urdu and linguistics at Oakland University, Rochester ...

Exclusion, ostracism, imprisonment and other variations of imaginable/unimaginable infliction seem to be the universal fate of great minds and souls and those who stand for truth. History has been ...