: Verses of Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz dropped from CBSE Class 10 textbook: Report #IndiaNEWS Excerpts of two poems of renowned Pakistani Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz have been excluded from the Class 10

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Verses of Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz dropped from CBSE Class 10 textbook: Report #IndiaNEWS
Excerpts of two poems of renowned Pakistani Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz have been excluded from the Class 10 Social Science textbook in the 2022-’23 curriculum of the Central Board of Secondary Education, The Indian Express reported on Saturday.For more than a decade, the verses were part of the “Religion, Communalism and Politics – Communalism, Secular State� segment of the National Council of Educational Research and Training’s textbook called “Democratic Politics II�, according to the newspaper.The segment will continue to be part of the textbook “excluding image[s] on page 46, 48, 49�, the CBSE has reportedly said.The three pages carried two posters and a political cartoon. One of the pages had a poster by the Act Now for Harmony and Democracy, a non-profit organisation co-founded by activists Harsh Mander and Shabnam Hashmi. The poster had an illustrations of one of Faiz’s verses translated into English, according to The Indian Express. The verse – “Not enough to shed tears, to suffer anguish, not enough to nurse love in secret…Today, walk in the public square fettered in chains�, was translated from Faiz’s poem “Aaj Bazaar Me Pa Ba Jola Chalo�, or “Let us walk in the market in shackles�. Faiz had written the poem while being taken in chains from a jail...Read more

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