ye daagh daagh ujaala
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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
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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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