Zakir Hussein
INVC,,
Delhi,,
The Vice President of India Shri M. Hamid Ansari said that it had been observed that the poetry of Faiz Ahmad Faiz blends skilfully classical sobriety and artistry with modern incisiveness and ruthlessness of expression in exposing to light the turmoil and revolutionary urges of the time.essing after releasing Special issue of “Think India” quarterly on Faiz Ahmad Faiz at a function here today, he opined that Romance and revolution thus became part of the same impulse and, in Faiz’s own words, “gham-e-jaana aur gham-e-douran eik hi tajrabe ke do pehlu hain”. The resulting mix is overpowering; it accounts for the popularity of Faiz in the subcontinent and beyond.
Shri Ansari said that the previous week had been a spiritually uplifting one for him personally. On Friday he was in Dhakka participating in the joint Bangladesh-India celebration of Rabindranath Tagore’s 150th birth anniversary. Today, he is here to release this volume. Two great poets, both born Indian, who used the medium of verse to reflect on issues of wider concern. One thought in evolutionary terms, the other in revolutionary ones. The menu of options, a teasing one, was laid bare.
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. ~G. Woodberry