Radio Mirchi’s RJ Sayema translates and explains Faiz Ahmen Faiz’s poem Hum Dekhenge in this video.
The poem which has grown into a protest staple with a tune of its own, was sung by students of IIT Kanpur, at a December 17 march organised in solidarity with the students of Jamia Millia Islamia, upon whom police had unleashed violence on December 15. This later snowballed into a controversy big enough for the institution to form a panel to decide whether the spirit of the poem is ‘anti-Hindu’.