‘Kaagaz Nahi Dikhayenge’: Varun Grover Pens Down Poem Against NRC

Shashi Tharoor and Sitaram Yechury retweeted the video terming the poem “anti-NRC anthem”.

Comedian, poet and lyricist Varun Grover became the latest public figure to vent his dissent amid the countrywide protests against Citizenship Amendment Act and NRC, as he posted a video on Twitter on Saturday, 21 December, reciting a poem.

In the video, he asserts “Kaagaz Nahi Dikhayenge” (subtitled, “the NRC papers, we won’t show”).

In his tweet, he also credited eminent poet Rahat Indori and “Bangla slogans”.

"हम काग़ज़ नहीं दिखाएँगे।"

Inspired by the spirit of every protestor and India-lover. With hat-tips to Rahat Indori saab and the Bangla slogans.

(There is no copyright on these words - feel free to use them, adapt, sing, modify, create.) pic.twitter.com/bJZULAAvR8

— वरुण (@varungrover) December 21, 2019

‘Anti-NRC Anthem’

Twitter users promptly warmed up to Grover’s poem with a number of them, including CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, terming it as an “anthem” against the proposed NRC.

Thank you @varungrover, for giving India this brilliant anthem to resist this anti-people government and its draconian moves on CAA and NRC. https://t.co/5PMaKrgTvX

— Sitaram Yechury (@SitaramYechury) December 21, 2019

I don’t know who this brilliant poet is, but “hum kagaz nahin dikhayenge” is destined to be one of the most powerful anthems of the #CAA_NRC_Protests ! pic.twitter.com/vK0TEnR2IM

— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) December 21, 2019