Poetic justice: Arieb Azhar shines a light on Faiz’s Subh e Azadi

Subh e Azadi speaks of the outright heartbreak the partition of the subcontinent brought with it. Faiz wrote the words on the morning after August 14, 1947, and his disappointment in how independence was supposed to look and feel versus how it actually did is painfully clear.

October 10, 2021
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