Iqbal Bano and Faiz and Communism - hum dekhengai

when, in protest against the jailing of the subcontinent’s foremost left poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz by Pakistan’s dictator General Zia-ul Haq, she sang Faiz’s immortal song “Hum Dekhenge” We shall witness at a Lahore stadium full of 50,000 people, wearing a black sari in defiance of Zia’s ban on the sari. As her liquid voice reached the crescendo – declaring “Certainly we, too, shall witness that day … When these high mountains/Of tyranny and oppression turn to fluff and evaporate/And we oppressed/Beneath our feet will this earth shiver, shake and beat/And heads of rulers will be struck/With crackling lightening and thunder roars/When crowns will be flung in the air  — and thrones will be overturned …,” people joined with slogans of “Inquilab Zindabad” Long live revolution!. Hear a recording at http://www.radioreloaded.com/tracks/?11002.