About The Event
A play based on the life and poetry of the romantic revolutionary poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz. It focuses on the persecution the iconic poet suffered at the hands of his own country's (Pakistan) establishment and his imprisonment on the trumped up charges in the Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case. Faiz was editor of Pakistan Times, chairman of its Art Academy and a major poet of the Progressive Writers Movement. Along with Kaifi Azmi, Ali Sardar Jafri and Sajjad Zaheer, Faiz was messiah of the oppressed people all over the world. The play brings out his struggles, his romances, his optimism and above all his poetry that is considered a hymn for awakening of the oppressed classes
