Progressive Writer Movement

Listen to Zia Mohiuddin Ibn-e-Insha Mein Aur Faiz

 Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi planting a tree at the Yaad Bagh, with Farida Khanum (extreme left) and others looking on

 An excerpt from a news item published in Aligarh-based weekly Payam on March 5, 1993

 Angare writers Rashid Jahan (second from right) and Mahmud Uz Zafar (extreme left)  A Rebel and Her Cause

 Arif Naqvi, Ingrid Naqvi, young Nargis with famous film actress Nargis Dutt M.P. at Nargis Dutt's residence

 Arif with famous Bollywood film actors Sunil Dutt and Dilip Kumar in Lucknow

 Faiz with his family - Empress Road, 1955

 Faiz with Sajjad Zaheer

 File picture of Urdu writers Salma Siddiqui and Krishan Chander.

 Ibne Insha was one of the early supporters of the Progressive Writers Movement (PWM) in colonial India.

 Kaifi Azmi - the last comrade-poet

 Kaifi Azmi, a prominent writer, poet and lyricist of the Progressive Writers Movement,

 Khalifa Abdul Aziz, father of A. Hameed with his two younger daughters, Ishrat Shafi and Mahmooda Ali

 Krishan Chander with Dilip Kumar and Ramanand Sagar.

Krishan Chander- the creator of many unforgettable short stories & one of the pioneers of the Progressive Writers Movement.

 Manto with his wife, Safia, and sister-in-law, Zakia.

 Notification of ban on Angare published in United Provinces Gazette

Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi with Parveen Shakir

 Poet Kaifi Azmi with his comrades headed for a conference of Progressive Writers' Association

 Progressive writers (left to right) Sibte Hasan, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Hameed Akhtar and Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi

 Rashid Jahan (1905-1952) was a Gynecologist by profession and a writer.

Arif Naqvi With famous Urdu poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz at Arif's residence in Berlin