Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911-1984) was a leading poet of South Asia. Writing in Hindi and Urdu, his writings expressed themes of love and beauty, and he eventually incorportated commentaries on the socio-political climate of his time into his work. Spending most of his life in present-day Pakistan, he was affiliated with the Communisty party and was outspoken about his opposition to the Pakistani government. He was nomiated twice for the Nobel Prize in literature and won the 1962 Lenin Peace Prize. During his life time, he was also an English literature professor, an editor for several distinguised magazines and newpapers, and a prominent figure of the Afro-Asian writer’s movement.
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The Village Way
Practices for Belonging in a Fragmented World
For thousands of years, we lived according to the principles of village life. Then, around the 14th Century, our lives were reorganized by rulers around growth and accumulation – often at the cost of community, equity, and the living Earth. What would it mean to return to simplicity, and mutual care?
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