Dr Akmal Hussain
“Freedom is necessary for creativity because creativity requires intellectual space to make a leap of the imagination. As Asadullah Ghalib the great poet asked: “If the first footstep of my creative imagination covers the universe, where will the second step take me?” Allama Iqbal in the same vein suggests: “Take the development of the Self to such heights, that God may ask the human individual, what be your inclination?” Thus the institutional conditions of freedom, of human rights, of gender equality, of human security, and the economic conditions that enable a life of self-respect, are all essential to the process of development.”
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