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ye daagh daagh ujaala

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ye daagh daagh ujaala ye shab gazeeda sahar

wo intezaar tha jis ka

ye wo sahar to naheen

this tainted brightness

this night-bitten dawn

this is not the sunrise

we have long waited for

Faiz Ahmad Faiz (21)

daagh (5)

scars, stains

ujaala (3)

light

shab (13)

evening, night

gazeeda (1)

bitten, wounded

sahar (6)

dawn

intezaar (20)

waiting

Theme: Oppression, Rebellion, & Freedom (58)

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The much-awaited freedom of India from the British, the poet laments, was not what we longed for. Riven by bloody partition and stricken by pervasive poverty, the joy of freedom was stained by deep darkness. As a secular-communist, Faiz was doubly distressed.

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