The beauty of poetry lies in the fact that unlike how it is with a newspaper report, people are free to make their own interpretations of the lines. But it is this very aspect of a particular Faiz Ahmed Faiz nazm called Hum dekhenge that has created a fault line on the IIT Kanpur campus. Some students recited it during a protest march. A faculty member then lodged a complaint against them, saying the poem is anti-Hindu. The protesting students pooh-poohed this claim, though an inquiry against them is underway. Either way, we felt that it was a good opportunity to ask six city-based performance artistes about their favourite protest poems and songs. Here's what they said.