Watch: Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters Recites Aamir Aziz’s ‘Sab Yaad Rakha Jayega’, Calls CAA ‘Fascist & Racist’

Waters was participating in a protest last week to demand the release of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who has been in jail in the UK since April 2019.

New Delhi: ‘Everything will be remembered, Everything recorded’, said Pink Floyd co-founder and legendary musician Roger Waters as he read out Delhi student-activist Aamir Aziz’s poem at a protest in London.

The 76-year-old singer-lyricist was participating in a protest last week to demand the release of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who has been in jail in the UK since April 2019.

A video of the rock icon reading out the English translation of Aziz’s Sab Yaad Rakha Yayega (Everything will be remembered) is now going viral on social media. Waters introduced Aziz as a ‘young poet and activist in Delhi’ who is involved in a fight against Modi and his ‘fascist, racist Citizenship law’.

Watch it here:

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

Here are the lines he read:

“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.

Everything will be remembered;

Everything recorded.”

After reciting the poem, Waters also said, ‘I think this kid’s gotta future’, amid cheers and applause.

The poem got a thumbs up from celebrities such as composer Vishal Dadlani and actor Richa Chadha and viewers alike:

Roger Waters of #PinkFloyd reads a translation of Aamir Aziz' poem "Sab Yaad Rakha Jaayega", in solidarity with anti-CAA protestors.
The world is watching Delhi, amitshahofficial and @narendramodi . The world is… https://t.co/bSj2hYR1e0
— VISHAL DADLANI (@VishalDadlani) February 27, 2020

Wow…. Just wow… Pink Floyd , the bestest band ever .
Waiting for bhakts to reject Pink Floyd…
— Rohit Gajare (@rohitbg1512) February 27, 2020

When poets, song writers who are largely peace lovers and start taking notice, you know that you are fighting the good battle.
— tj (@tjweet) February 27, 2020

Notably, Aziz had written the poem on 11 January, just days after the attack on JNU students. His poem had gone viral during anti-CAA protests, and was shared widely on social media.

Here’s the original video: