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Saquib Salim March 2, 2020 authors, Dictator, Jaun Elia, Journalists, Media, paid media, poem, Progressive Writers, revolutionary poetry, Shairi, Shayari, Urdu, Urdu Poetry, Writers, Zia-ul-Haq

When Jaun Elia Asked Writers and Journalists To Speak Up Against The Tyranny

In the times when journalists, reporters and writers have taken biased positions with one ideology or the other it has

Freedom Fighter Poet Urdu

Saquib Salim January 30, 2020 #Gandhi, Gandhiji, Jaun Elia, Jinnah, Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Partition, Rais Amrohvi, Shayari, Urdu, Urdu Poetry

Rais Amrohvi’s Poetry on Gandhi’s Assassination

Rais Amrohvi (Syed Muhammad Mehedi), was a famous poet of Urdu language and happens to be the elder brother of

Shagufi Fatima January 14, 2020January 5, 2021 Ali Sardar Jafri, Autobiography, Bollywood, Communists, Hyderabad, Indian Muslims, Kaifi and Shaukat, Kaifi Azmi, Love, Love Story, Poet, Poetry, Progressive Writers, Shabana Azmi, Shaukat Kaifi, Shayari, Urdu, Writers

When Kaifi Azmi First Met Shaukat : Love Story of a Poet

(Following is an excerpt from the autobiography of Shaukat Kaifi, wife of Kaifi Azmi. The autobiography, Yaad Ki Rahguzar, is originally

Saquib Salim January 10, 2020January 10, 2020 caa, Communist Party of Pakistan, Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Hum Dekhenge, Modi, nrc, Pakistan, Poetry, Profressive Writers, Protest, Rawalpindi Conspiracy, Sajjad Zaheer, Shayari, Urdu

When Sajjad Zaheer wrote about Faiz Ahmad Faiz from the jail in Pakistan

(Following is a letter written by Sajjad Zaheer to his family in Lucknow, as published by the Tribune (Sydney, NSW),

Saquib Salim January 8, 2020January 9, 2020 #AliGarh, Aligarh Muslim University, AMU, Banned poetry, Education, Jamia Milia Islamia, Jamia Millia Islami, JMI, JNU, Muslim, Shayari, Urdu Poetry

When Asking Donations for Aligarh Muslim University were seditious (Anti-National) : Banned Poem ‘Muslim University ka Chanda’

There is a misconception or a wrongly held notion that Aligarh Muslim University was created by the British or at

Freedom Movement

Saquib Salim January 7, 2020January 9, 2020 #Jamia, AMU, Atrocities, Banned, caa, Firing, Indian National Movement, JNU, Modi, Noor, nrc, Poetry, Police, Shayari, Urdu, Video, Yogi

Listen to a poem banned by the British for exposing Police atrocities

In 1921, the British Government banned and confiscated a poem written by an unknown freedom fighter whose pen name was