Street to studio, verse as an art commodity

The spat between poet Aamir Aziz and artist Anita Dube over the use of Aziz's popular poem, Sab Yaad Rakha Jayega, in Dube's recent exhibition in Delhi, Timanjala Ghar: Three Storey House, raises questions about the ethics of art production.

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The spat between poet Aamir Aziz and artist Anita Dube over the use of Aziz's popular poem, Sab Yaad Rakha Jayega, in Dube's recent exhibition in Delhi, Timanjala Ghar: Three Storey House, raises questions about the ethics of art production. Sab Yaad Rakha Jayega, performed by Aziz first on YouTube in January 2020, was an anthem of sorts for the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protestors. Dube reproduced the poem in her work, "After Aamir Aziz," while acknowledging Aziz's authorship but, in the latter's words, "without his