Poetry of defiance, and nuttiness over Faiz’s ‘Hum Dekhenge’

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English - January 03, 2020 09:02 - 20 minutes - 19 MB - ★★★★ - 75 ratings
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IIT Kanpur forms a panel to decide if Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz's nazm Hum Dekhenge is offensive to Hindus. In episode 358 of #cuttheclutter,

Shekhar Gupta re-reads the poets mind, tells us more about Faiz the man, his many failed revolutions & the fascinating context of his most powerful lines

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