AN IDIOT’S GUIDE TO FAIZ
Jan 11, 2020
3 minutes
SHREEVATSA NEVATIA
Illustration by TANMOY CHAKRABORTY
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When IIT-Kanpur professor Vashi Mant Sharma decided to complain against the recitation of Faiz Ahmad Faiz’s on December 17, he had little idea his tantrum would inadvertently give the movement he loathed its anthem. Verses of the poem echoed in Kolkata’s Gariahat where protestors were marching against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. After the assault on JNU students and teachers on the night of Sunday, January 5, a group of Mumbai residents gathered near the Gateway.
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