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Q124
(IAS/2008)
History & Culture › Culture, Literature, Religion & Philosophy › Modern Indian literature
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Who among the following wrote the poem, Subh-e Azadi?
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The poem “Subh-e-Azadi” (Dawn of Freedom) was written by Faiz Ahmed Faiz. Contemporary and later accounts identify it as Faiz’s anguished elegy on the trauma and disillusionment of Partition, written in August 1947 and widely anthologized and discussed in South Asian literary commentary. Scholarly and journalistic treatments referencing the poem describe it explicitly as Faiz’s work and analyze its opening couplet and themes of a flawed freedom, linking it to his larger corpus and political stance as a progressive poet [2]. Its authorship is consistently attributed to Faiz in reputable outlets and academic treatments of modern Urdu poetry [2].
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- [1] https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/music/a-musical-ode-to-faizs-only-poem-on-partition/article65856223.ece
- [2] https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/theatre-of-the-absurd/article30487519.ece
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