Watch: Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters recites Aamir Aziz’s ‘Sab Yaad Rakha Jayega’ in solidarity
Aamir Aziz released the poem in January after the attack on Jawaharlal Nehru University students.
Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters recited a poem written by young Delhi poet Aamir Aziz at a protest in London against the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on February 22. The guitarist spoke about a “global enlightenment which this fragile planet so desperately needs,” and brought up Indian what he called Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “fascist, racist” citizenship law.
He proceeded to recite an English translation of a small portion of Aziz’s poem, written in the aftermath of attacks on students at Delhi’s Jamia and Jawaharlal Nehru Universities:
Everything will be remembered
Kill us, we will become ghosts and write of your killings
With all the evidence, you write jokes in court, 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
Watch Aziz recite his poem in Urdu below:
