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Ali Madeeh Hashmi

How a writer whose day (and night) job is being a psychiatrist looks at the world of Covid-19

‘It was not without some apprehension that I started experimenting with poetry during Covid-19.’

Ali Madeeh Hashmi
· Oct 06, 2020 · 05:30 pm
‘They should have thought better of messing with a poet’: Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s grandson and biographer

‘It has always been understood that poets are in touch with something not visible or understandable to ordinary men and women.’

Ali Madeeh Hashmi
· Jan 13, 2020 · 07:30 am
Faiz Ahmed Faiz on cinema: Its real purpose, like all art, is to reflect human life

Poems by the Pakistani intellectual giant have been featured in several films, and he also wrote screenplays.

Ali Madeeh Hashmi
· Apr 13, 2016 · 12:00 pm

How Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s most famous poem came to be written

The poem with the famous line ‘This is not that dawn’ was written to commemorate Pakistan’s independence.

Ali Madeeh Hashmi
· Apr 01, 2016 · 08:30 am