13 April,2025 09:58 AM IST | Mumbai | The Hitlist Team
Javed Akhtar. Pics/AFP, Yogen Shah, Instagram
Veteran screenwriter and lyricist Javed Akhtar described poetry as the "language of justice" and "vocal cords of society" while receiving the Namdeo Dhasal Samashti Award at the Samashti Arts and Literature Festival in Mumbai recently. He stressed the need to produce poets across the globe and emphasised that poetry's inherent values are equality and justice. Akhtar said, "People who listen to poetry of romance do not know that poetry is not only the language of love, but it is also the language of justice", and added that a great poet is one who speaks of justice.
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