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‘Distressing is the enveloping night’

The year was 1985, Pakistan’s darkest period under the General Zia dictatorship. The regime only reluctantly allowed the celebration of the dissident poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz’s birthday the year after he died, virtually banished from public life. An unspoken ban remained on his poetry on state TV a  ....Read more

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Iqbal BanoBy: Syed Azmathullah | Thursday , 23 Apr '09 20:54:41 PM Reply | Forward Do you folks remember when it was Urdu which took pride of place in Madras and its libraries. Now it has been slowly placed in its grave just as Iqbal Bano. Together, all the monuments, all road names all public places such as the Cricket stadium, the Emden's corner in Parrys Corner, the plaques at the Adyar Bridge and the Victory monuments have been vandalized. Has Tamil got any glory by this?
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