Poet & writer
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
ਫ਼ੈਜ਼ ਅਹਿਮਦ ਫ਼ੈਜ਼فیض احمد فیض
Urdu poet from Sialkot whose 'Subh-e-Azadi' mourned the dawn of 1947 as 'not the dawn we longed for'.
Faiz Ahmed Faiz was born in 1911 near Sialkot and became the greatest Urdu poet of his time, a Marxist and a romantic.
His poem 'Subh-e-Azadi', the dawn of freedom, written in 1947, says that this stained light is not the dawn we longed for. He was editor of the Pakistan Times, was jailed for four years in the Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case, and spent years in exile in Beirut and Moscow.
His poems of love and revolution, 'Hum Dekhenge' above all, are sung at protests across South Asia. He died in Lahore in 1984.
