Poetry is the most effective way to protest

<strong>“Poetry is the most effective way to protest,” said Ahmed Faraz, recounting how he had begun composing poetry. </strong>

In a piece titled ‘Main kyun likhta hoon?’ (Why do I write?), included in Mehboob Zafar’s book ‘Ahmed Faraz: fun-o-shakhsiyet’, Faraz says that when he had been in school it had been difficult to win bait bazi competitions.

He was usually defeated by a fellow girl student. In these competitions of reciting poetry, one has to recite a

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