He too joined the effort and began to write anti-fascist dramas and speeches for radio. His book, Lucknow Mein Paanch Raaten (Five Nights in Lucknow), talks about his days in Lucknow when the training of squads by the Communist Party as part of mobilisation for the War effort, had commenced. Photo: YouTube video screengrabĬlearly, it was not the time to be a fence-sitter. And, crushing Malaya and Burma, the Japanese forces had reached the borders of Assam.Īli Sardar Jafri.
He was kept in Lucknow jail for several days and then sent to prison in Banaras.īy the time Sardar was released, the complexion of World War II had changed due to Hitler’s attack on the Soviet Union. He was sentenced to six months of hard labour.
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However, in keeping with the tradition of opposition to the colonial power he said in full court that he did not recognise the court or its law, therefore the question of presenting a defence did not even arise. In the first instance, the chargesheet against Sardar was so flimsy that had he fought the case, he would have definitely been released. He was jailed twice: by the British during 1940–41, for the crime of making a speech at the height of opposition to the imperialist war and by the government of independent India in 1949 for espousing the cause of socialism.Īlso read: Jaun Elia: A Communist Poet Who Found Religion and Marxism Compatible He also wrote a few plays for the Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA). He began his career as a fiction writer, but later moved to poetry. Jafri was not only among the founders of the Progressive Writers’ Movement he raised the standard of Progressive literature with his powerful imagery, giving it new meanings and facets. (Come bearing the fragrant garden of LahoreĪnd we will bring the light of a Banaras morning Phir is ke baad ye poochen ki kaun dushman hai? Hum aayen subh-e-Banaras ki raushni le kar “ Tum aao Gulshan-e-Lahore se chaman bardosh When Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee took a bus journey to Pakistan in 1999, the following four-liner by Jafri was played on its PA system, and became quite the rage for a while: In his later years, he received some recognition as a poet who wrote optimistically about Indo-Pak relations. The writer, orator, poet, short-story writer, dramatist, critic and filmmaker, Ali Sardar Jafri, who passed away in Mumbai 20 years ago on August 1, never received his due as a poet, perhaps due to his programmatic verses and his overt association with the Communist Party of India. (Every memory will be erased from the beautiful temple of memories
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