Interviews

We have built institutions that produce graduates, not human beings. The difference matters more than we are willing to admit.

The problem is not that we have lost our faith — it is that we have replaced it with performance. We have the form but not the substance.

They are not opposites — they never were. Reason, when pursued honestly, does not end in doubt. It ends in awe.

The intellectual who seeks applause has already failed. His only duty is to the truth.

The language has not declined. The readers have. Urdu waits patiently, holding all it was given.

In this extended conversation, Ahmad Javaid Sahab reflects on the inseparable bond between poetry and the inner life.