Patna:
Faiz Cultural Foundation
, UK, has invited Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (
JNUSU) president
Kanhaiya Kumar to speak at the annual Faiz peace festival in September in London. The event is being organized since 2011 to celebrate the life and ideals of renowned left-wing Urdu poet and activist Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911-1984).
The one-day event is divided into two parts - speeches and music. "Others expected to address this year's event are Pakistan's leading rights activist Asma Jahangir, chairman of Pakistan's Senate
Raza Rabbani
, who is a left-wing voice in Pakistan's politics, and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn," said an organizer.
"Kanhaiya Kumar has captured the imagination of people not only in India but also beyond its borders. It will be an honour to host him and listen to him here at the Faiz peace festival, which has become the largest annual event of progressive South Asians in Europe," said Nadeem Saeed, general secretary of the Faiz Cultural Foundation, UK, a non-profit organization registered in England and Wales.
The foundation's aim is to promote tolerance, humanity, human rights and peace through literary work of Faiz and other progressive writers of the subcontinent. It has been organizing annual 'Faiz Mela' in London since 2011, when Faiz's centennial birthday was celebrated across the world.
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