{"id":38962,"date":"2023-02-27T19:51:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T19:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fawadhasanfawad.pk\/fhf\/?p=38962"},"modified":"2023-03-06T20:16:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T20:16:31","slug":"the-bird-who-sang-in-the-cage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fawadhasanfawad.pk\/fhf\/the-bird-who-sang-in-the-cage\/","title":{"rendered":"The bird who sang in the cage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fawad Hassan Fawad\u2019s collection of poems, \u2018Kunj-e-Qafas\u2019, discussed at LLF session<\/strong><\/p>\n

Muhammad Shahzad<\/em><\/p>\n

LAHORE: On the last day of the 10th edition of the Lahore Literary Festival at the Alhamra Arts Council on Sunday, a session was held to discuss \u201cKunj-e-Qafas\u201d, a compilation of poems penned by Fawad Hassan Fawad, a former principal secretary to a former prime minister.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fawad wrote those poems during his two-year imprisonment.<\/p>\n

The panelists included Pakistan Peoples Party\u2019s Aitzaz Ahsan who started the discussion by saying that he felt a bit overwhelmed seeing a bureaucrat turning into a writer because bureaucracy and literature were two fields that were world apart.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Aitzaz did refer to the writings of eminent bureaucrats Perveen Shakir and Qudratullah Shahab, though the former had joined the bureaucracy after having won laurels as a poet.<\/p>\n

Aitzaz said that it was a good omen that Fawad, who had served at key postings as a bureaucrat, managed to pour out his heart in the form of poetry.<\/p>\n

The PPP leader said that Fawad\u2019s poetry contained a flavor of youthfulness. It was not everyone\u2019s forte to write poetry from behind bars.<\/p>\n

Aitzaz hastened to add that Urdu literature had had a tradition of people producing great works during incarceration. Faiz Ahmad Faiz and Habib Jalib were but two examples in this regard, he said.<\/p>\n

Fawad Hassan Fawad said that due to stereotyping of a few institutions those who worked in those institutions were also subjected to the same practice of stereotyping.<\/p>\n

He acknowledged that bureaucracy demanded compliance. Nevertheless, voices of dissent did exist as well, he added.<\/p>\n

Fawad credited his teachers and parents as far as his emergence as a poet was concerned.<\/p>\n

He told the audience that one of his earliest postings as a bureaucrat was in Balochistan.<\/p>\n

He said that though the province was said to be a \u201ctribal society\u201d, dissent by the bureaucracy in Balochistan had been much acknowledged.<\/p>\n

He said that his stint in Balochistan had made an important development in his personality.<\/p>\n

Fawad said that society had not yet changed to the extent where \u201cdiscussions outside the frameworks\u201d could be allowed by the ruling regimes, be they dictatorships or representative governments.<\/p>\n

Fawad startled the audience by telling them that he had been a students\u2019 union leader during his college days in Pakistan as well as abroad, and being into students politics had made him an advocate of freedom of expression.<\/p>\n

He said that he felt sorry that ban on students unions had remained in effect for such a long period of time.<\/p>\n

Fawad said that society might have had some fear at the back of its mind that if students were allowed to indulge in politics, they would create anarchy.<\/p>\n

Published in The Express Tribune, February 27th, 2023.<\/p>\n

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Source:\u00a0<\/strong>Tribune
\nLink: <\/strong>https:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/2403457\/the-bird-who-sang-in-the-cage<\/a><\/p>\n

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