Faiz Ahmad Faiz - Voice of the Voiceless

<p>Faiz Ahmad Faiz (13 February 1911 – 20 November 1984) was a Pakistani poet, and author in&nbsp;Urdu&nbsp;and Punjabi language. He was one of the most celebrated writers of the&nbsp;Urdu&nbsp;language in Pakistan. Outside literature, he has been described as "a man of wide experience" having been a teacher, an army officer, a journalist, a trade unionist and a broadcaster.<br>Faiz was nominated for the&nbsp;Nobel Prize in Literature&nbsp;and won the&nbsp;Lenin Peace Prize.<br>Born in&nbsp;Punjab,&nbsp;British India, Faiz went on to study at&nbsp;Government College&nbsp;and&nbsp;Oriental College. He went on to serve in the&nbsp;British Indian Army. After Pakistan's independence, Faiz became the editor to&nbsp;The Pakistan Times&nbsp;and a leading member of the&nbsp;Communist Party&nbsp;before being arrested in 1951 as an alleged part of&nbsp;conspiracy&nbsp;to overthrow the&nbsp;Liaquat administration&nbsp;and replace it with a left-wing government.[5]<br>Faiz was released after four years in prison and went on to become a notable member of the&nbsp;Progressive Writers' Movement&nbsp;and eventually an aide to the&nbsp;Bhutto administration, before being self-exiled to&nbsp;Beirut.Faiz was an avowed&nbsp;Marxist, and he received the&nbsp;Lenin Peace Prize&nbsp;from the&nbsp;Soviet Union&nbsp;in 1962. His work remains influential in Pakistan literature and arts. Faiz's literary work was posthumously publicly honored when the&nbsp;Pakistan Government&nbsp;conferred upon him the nation's highest civil award,&nbsp;Nishan-e-Imtiaz, in 1990.<br><br>If you like our podcast please share it with your friends. Leave a review. Feedback is always welcome and much appreciated.<br><b>Abdul Raoof Siddiqui</b><br>email: <b>raoof3@yahoo.com</b><br>Instagram <b>@urdu.ghazal</b></p>