Anti-colonial movements as passive revolution: Abdur Razzaq’s insights on 1947
This stain-splattered daybreak, this night-bitten dawn, This is not the dawn which we were waiting for in ferment This is not the dawn with longing for which Friends walked on hoping to find somewhere or else. ̶ (Faiz 1971: 122-23; trans. modified) These lines open Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s famous poem Subh-e-Azadi (August 1947), translated as… Continue reading Anti-colonial movements as passive revolution: Abdur Razzaq’s insights on 1947