Faiz Ahmed Faiz

The Friday List: From a lecture-demonstration on kalbeliya to an unrehearsed, spontaneous play, your weekly calendar of virtual events

Every Friday, we'll bring you a curated list of online experiences — performances, talks, tours, screenings — to mark on your weekly calendar.

To be truly inclusive, anti-CAA movement must acknowledge protest traditions in languages beyond Urdu

The experience of resistance is a shared one — one that cuts across language and region. A plurality of defiant voices would only reinforce the solidarity that is at the centre of such resistance, by helping people both express and hear it in new ways that channel their anger and frustration, telling them that they are not alone in this. Learning about marginalised traditions and offering them representation also ties in to the broader inclusiveness, progressiveness, and opposition to homogenisation that the anti-CAA movement stands for.

Delhi Police interrupts India Art Fair after complaint of anti-CAA paintings; artwork was about India’s women, clarify participating artists

A performative art piece at the India Art Fair was interrupted after police arrived at the venue following a complaint that some paintings against CAA were being exhibited

Amid Faiz row, BJP's Swapan Dasgupta asks for 'subtitles' for Urdu poetry, gets dunked on by Twitterati

Twitterati quickly responded to Dasgupta, the author of Awakening Bharat Mata: The Political Beliefs of the Indian Right, who was also a signatory to a recent statement released by 1,100 academicians and research scholars from various universities across India and abroad as well as prominent persons in support of the amended Citizenship Act.

Urdu poet Munawwar Rana reacts to row over Faiz Ahmed Faiz's 'Hum Dekhenge', says politicos turn everything into communal issue these days

Statements by Urdu poet Munawwar Rana come after few faculty members complained that students who took out peaceful march on campus on against CAA in solidarity with Jamia Millia Islamia students sung it as mark of protest

Anti-CAA protests: IIT-Kanpur sets up panel to decide if Faiz Ahmed Faiz's 'Hum dekhenge' offends Hindu sentiments

Some students of IIT-Kanpur had sung the poem 'Hum Dekhenge' at a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act on 17 December.

Romancing With Revolution: Author Zaheer Ali on the life and works of Faiz Ahmed Faiz

All those who believe in liberty, equality, justice and intend to transform the socio-economic and political conditions in the India may seek inspiration from Faiz's poetry, says Zaheer Ali.

Moneeza Hashmi row: Indo-Pak relations further strained, as Faiz's daughter denied permission to speak

This incident involving Faiz Ahmed Faiz's daughter marks a new low in the general pettiness and tit-for-tat attitude that characterises Indo-Pakistan bilateral relations

Moneeza Hashmi, Faiz Ahmed Faiz's daughter, did not have permission to attend media summit in Delhi, officials claim

Moneeza Hashmi, the daughter of famous Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, was not allowed to attend a media summit in New Delhi as her visa, issued in February, was not meant for the event last week, official sources claimed

Faiz Ahmed Faiz's daughter Moneeza Hashmi disallowed from participating in Delhi event after being invited

Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz's daughter and eminent media personality Muneeza Hashmi was invited to attend a media summit in Delhi but was allegedly not allowed to take part in it without being offered an explanation, media sources said.