For the unversed, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur has constituted a panel to decide whether legendary Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s poem ‘Hum Dekhenge’ is offensive to Hindu sentiments or not. The controversy erupted after the poem was recited at the IIT-Kanpur campus.
Reacting to the same, Bollywood’s ace lyricist Javed Akhtar termed the incident “absurd and funny”. So much so, that he says it’s difficult to talk about it seriously.
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“Calling Faiz Ahmed Faiz ‘anti-Hindu’ is so absurd and funny that it’s difficult to seriously talk about it,” he was quoted as saying by ANI.
Furthermore, Javed Akhtar said that Faiz wrote the poem ‘Hum Dekhenge’ against the then Pakistan government run by the former President of the country Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq.
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“He lived half his life outside Pakistan, he was called anti-Pakistan there. ‘Hum Dekhenge’ he wrote against Zia ul Haq’s government which was a communal regressive and fundamentalist government,” Akhtar added.
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Rejecting the claim that the poem is anti-Hindu, he explained the phrase from the poem and said, “He has mentioned a phrase – ‘Goonjega an-al-haq ka naara’ which means ‘aham brahma’, which means that the creator and creation is one, it is not an Islamic thought.”
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On Thursday, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur set up a committee to look into the issue. This move came after some faculty member complaint that the students who took out a peaceful march in the campus on Dec 17 against the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act and in solidarity with Jamia Millia Islamia students, sung it as a mark of protest, which hurt the sentiments of other communities.
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The CAA grants citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Parsis, Buddhists and Christians fleeing religious persecution from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh and came to India on or before Dec 31, 2014.
With inputs from ANI
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