The Liberating Walls of the Ghazal Nirvana
This piece aims to quite literally walk you through a ghazal — Gulon Mein Rang Bhare (Filling the Flowers with Colour) — penned by Pakistani Marxist poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz in 1954 while he was in Rawalpindi’s Montgomery prison for his communist beliefs. Walking with you is Ali Sethi, a young classical singer who breathes life into the poetry