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The Best of Faiz Ahmed Faiz

The Best of Faiz (Faiz Ahmed Faiz)/translated by Shiv K. Kumar.New Delhi,

UBSPD, 2001, xx, 200 p., $10 (pbk). ISBN 81-7476-330-.

"Poet, journalist, translator, film-maker, broadcaster, Marxist activist andrecipient of the Lenin Peace Prize, Faiz Ahmed Faiz re! into a leend inhis lifetime #ith his death in $%&', his admirers all over the !orld felt as ifa literar( era had come to an end Accordin to )d!ard *aid, a celebratedorientalist, Faiz is +the reatest of contemporar( rdu poets

".ein a liberal humanist, Faizs poetic vision reconized no nationalbarriers /is poetr(, musical and multiversant, has lent itself readil( to such

reno!ned hazal siners as .eum Akhtar, Mehdi /asan, 01bal .ano and2oor 3ehan

"0n The Best of Faiz, 4umar has presented an )nlish translation of thebest of his poems, !ith parallel 5oman script, to enable even non-rdureaders to enjo( poetr( that articulates the entire rane of humanemotions /ere is a book for all lovers of poetr( to read and preserve"

(Exer!ts from Masterpieces of Urdu Ghazal - From 17th to 20th

Century" byK.C. Kanda)

Ghazal!"i#i%&e' i I"% i &he 10&h e&"* +.D. I& #"ew "! &he Pe"i% qasida,whih /e"e !" h%' !e &! I"% "! +"%bi%. he qasidaw% % p%e#*"iw"i&&e i p"%ie ! &he epe"!" !" hi !blee. he p%"& ! &he qasida%lle'tashbib#!& 'e&%he' %' 'e/el!pe' i 'e !"e ! &ie i&! &heghazal. he"e%&he qasida!e&ie "% i&! % %* % 100 !ple& !" !"e i !!"h*e, &heghazalel'! exee'e' &wel/e, %' e&&le' '!w &! % %/e"%#e ! e/e. Be%e! i& !p%"%&i/e b"e/i&* %' !e&"%&i!, i& &he%&i /%"ie&* %' "ih

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##e&i/ee, &heghazal!! elipe' &he qasida%' be%e &he !& p!pl%"!" ! p!e&"* i I"%.

heghazal%e &! I'i% wi&h &he %'/e& %' ex&ei! ! &he li ilee"! &he 12&h e&"* !w%"'. he !#hl b"!#h& %l!# wi&h &he I"%i%

l&"e %' i/ili%&i!, il'i# I"%i% p!e&"* %' li&e"%&"e. he Pe"i% #%/ew%* &! U"' % &he l%#%#e ! p!e&"* %' l&"e i I'i%, &he ghazal, &he "i& !I'!-I"%i% l&"e, !' i& !pp!"&i&* &! #"!w %' 'e/el!p. +l&h!#h &heghazali %i' &! h%/e be# wi&h +i" h"!(1253-1325) i N!"&he" I'i%,De% i &he S!&h w% i& "e%l h!e i &he e%"l* &%#e. I& w% "e' %'&"%ie' i &he !"& ! !l!'% %' Bi%p" 'e" &he p%&"!%#e ! li"le". !h'. li &%b Sh%h, %hi, 9%hi, N"%&i %' %li %* be !&e'%!# i& pi!ee". : &hee, %li De%* (1667-1707) %* be %lle' &he;h%e" ! U"' p!e&"*. %li

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p"e%bl* "e!"&e' &! whe % p!e& i !"!&e' wi&h % el%b!"%&e &h!#h&'iil& &! be !'ee' i % i#le /e"e. +l&h!#h &he ghazal'e%l wi&h &hewh!le pe&" ! h% expe"iee, i& e&"%l !e" i l!/e. Ghazal i %+"%bi w!"' whih li&e"%ll* e% &%lki# &! w!e.