A Delhi-based poet-activist has accused artist Anita Dube of using his widely known protest poem ‘Sab Yaad Rakha Jayega‘ without his consent, credit, or compensation. Aamir Aziz, the Jamia Millia Islamia alumnus, condemned what he termed as “cultural extraction and plunder.” The 35-year-old said he first learned about the unauthorised use of his work when a friend spotted his poem stitched into a display at Vadehra Art Gallery on March 18. The gallery, one of India’s most reputed art institutions, is currently hosting an exhibition of Ms Dube’s work. Mr Aziz alleged the poem had been renamed and recontextualised in the gallery space, making it appear as Ms Dube’s original work. “That was the first time I learned Anita Dube had taken my poem and turned it into her ‘art.’ When I confronted her, she made it seem normal – like lifting a living poet’s work, branding it into her own, and selling it in elite galleries for lakhs of rupees was normal,” Mr Aziz wrote in a statement on social media. According to Mr …