BAFTAs Rocked By Shocking On-Stage Slur, Host Alan Cumming Issues Apology With 'I Swear' Statement A shocking moment from the 2026 BAFTAs has gone viral after an offensive slur was heard live during a ...
A poem that was sung inside the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur has unpredictably struck some controversial chords. Little did the students know that a poem recited in the campus would ...
The recent hullabaloo in India around Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s poem Hum Dekhenge – which is being recited daily by students protesting the Citizenship Amendment Act – has devolved into two broad camps: On ...
Ali Madeeh Hashmi, the grandson of Faiz Ahmed Faiz, writes that when these lines were sung by Iqbal Bano in 1986, the crowd went into raptures. The poem was one of modern Urdu’s most famous – “‘Wa ...
New Delhi: ‘The controversy surrounding ‘Hum Dekhenge’ is ‘irrelevant’ and ‘funny’, said Saleema Hashmi, daughter of the iconic poet and writer Faiz Ahmed Faiz, whose noted poem has triggered debate ...
Even as debates over Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s ‘Hum Dekhenge’ continue, it has been turned into the poem of protest of sorts for college students across the country. The latest to join in this are students ...