New Delhi: Pink Floyd’s co-founder and guitarist Roger Waters, in a protest march earlier this week, recited the poem Sab Yaad Rakha Jayega (Everything will be remembered) penned by Delhi-based poet Aamir Aziz. Aziz had written the poem in protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)
Speaking at an event in London demanding the release of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, Waters described Aziz as an activist “involved in the fight against [PM] Modi” and called the amended Act “[a] fascist, racist citizenship law”.
Waters read out the English translation of Aziz’s poem:
Everything will be remembered.
Killers, we will become ghosts
and write of your killings,
with all the evidence.
You write jokes in courts,
we will write justice on the walls.
We will speak so loudly that
even the deaf will hear.
We will write so clearly that
even the blind will read.
You write injustice on the earth,
We will write revolution in the sky.
“This kid has got a future,” he quipped in the end.
Roger Waters of Pink Floyd reads Aamir Aziz's 'Sab Yaad Rakha Jayega' and slays Narendra Modi. #DelhiRiots2020 pic.twitter.com/LAsDDD01Sq
— Samiran Mishra (@scoutdesk) February 27, 2020
Aziz had written the poem on 11 January, just days after the attack on JNU students. He also performed it at the massive anti-CAA protests in Hyderabad on the eve of Republic Day.
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Aziz’s poems are critical of the government
A former student of Jamia Millia Islamia University, 29-year-old Aziz has written several songs criticising the current government including ‘Achche din blues’, which was released a few days before the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
The song is replete with references to the Babri Masjid demolition. “Did the mosque close down, I asked. My friend told me it was broken,” sings Aziz.
The poet had also penned Jamia ki Ladkiyaan (The Women of Jamia) in response to the police crackdown on Jamia students on 15 December.
“Patriarchy’s clothes get torn when Jamia’s women gather on the streets… When police raise their sticks and pelt stones, and the men can’t muster the courage… Then it’s the women of Jamia who raise slogans,” reads the poem.
Aziz, in an interview last month on the Jamia attacks, said, “My parents and grandparents will all be illegal because they don’t have documents. When I tried to study and buy a house, they burnt our library, so where do I study now? India HAs become a dream now,” he said.
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Why foreigners are taking so much interest In Our Indian politics. Let me guess we have MODI as PM may be that’s the reason. Don’t worry no one can do anything MR MODI hai na.. Poor you. Jai Hind.
Acche din yaayengei ki nahi
Bas tum gaana gaaye jao,
Politics karatei jao!
Mai minority, majority politics
Jaanataa jo nahi.
Whether the good days will dawn upon or not
Instead of keep you singing,
Doing politics!
Minority-majority politics I
Know them not.
Sab kucch yaad rakha jaayegaa,
Tum sab kucch thik kaha rahe ho
Lekin itihaas mei kya-kya huya
Tum nahi jaanatei ho
Aur na hi tumne jaananei ki kosois ki.
Apni soch ke baarei mei bhi socho yaar,
Kya aap satya mei pragativaadi aur manavavaadi hain!
Everything will but be remembered,
You are saying it right
But what did it happen in history
You do not know it
Nor did you ever try to know it.
Think about your mind-set too, friend,
Are you really progressive and humanistic!
Roger Water is an useful idiot for Jihadists. He probably has no idea what the heck the CAA, and mindlessly chose to be on the side of this guy Aziz who clearly projects the extremely selfish fascism of the Islamists. Roger Water’s purpose will be better served if he comments on the 60 odd Islamic countries where the non Muslim is a sub human species. Each and every Islamic country is a tyranny where the non Muslim is a kafir. He of course will hold no political office of significance, let alone head of state, he could asked to pay the Jizya, a protection money like gangsters collect, and worse, his women could be declared maal e ghanimat, by divine decree ok to be raped or sold into sex slavery. Wonder what these airhead rockstars just because they have millions think of their irresponsible comments on a democracy like India. For Waters information the CAA is simply extending a helping hand to Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, Parsees, and others who are persecuted in the neighboring countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan which are declared Islamic where the helpless people are kicked out every single day. The CAA does not provide for Muslims, because Muslims already had their pound of flesh known as Pakistan courtesy of Waters, ancestors the British. Shame on Waters. Its no wonder Paksitani sex slave groomers now torment England.
The piece was shared by his dear leftist Marxist friend Vijay prashad and Tariq ali. Both have been against india, Tariq quite obvious. Vijay obviously against Right.
Roger Waters is the Bassist of Pink Floyd. David Gilmour is the Guitarist.
….. Anyways, there’s no one better than , him who can rhyme revolution so well, through all his songs. . It’s clear why he understood Aziz poetry so well.
Being an NRI living abroad I have always felt proud at Indias secular plurality. This is now shattered, now I feel ashamed of the news coming out of India. Indias biggest asset are its people, its soft power which is being eroded. People of ALL religions and faith have made India and it does not belong to anyone! Unless we want to go backwards, people must stop this from happening, dont let it become a Pakistan!