Faiz: From Passionate Love to a Cosmic Vision

Mujhse pehli si mohabbat meri mahbuub n maang ('My dearest, don't ask for the love we once had)

This line from Faiz's first poetry collection deeply touched the public consciousness, and it signalled the arrival of a new kind of poet who not only wrote about agonies of love but at the same time confronted the issues of daily struggles, including poverty, hunger, injustice and the oppressive colonial regime. He fused his lyrical compositions with the grammar of revolution and resistance tha...