In Popular Culture
A collection of some of Faiz's masterpieces in different genres and tributes by his family, contemporaries and scholars who knew him through his immortal poetry was published in 2011, under the name of "Celebrating Faiz" edited by D P Tripathi. The book was released on Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary in Punjab province of Pakistan.
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