There is a recent online video in which Mumbai-based musician Saba Azad is sitting in a café in Delhi, where she had gone to show solidarity with anti-CAA protesters. In it, she's seen breaking into an impromptu musical version of Hum Dekhenge, the Faiz Ahmed Faiz poem that has become an anthem of sorts for the movement. And the sort of passion she arouses in her listeners highlights how music is a potent weapon in the armoury of people who seek to bring about a peaceful revolution against perceived oppression. It's not just Azad, though. There is a whole wave of musicians trying to drown out the tide of hate that's emanating from the CAA kerfuffle. So on Music Freedom Day — celebrated on March 3 every year to mark the role that the art form plays in upholding fundamental human rights and freedom of expression — we speak to four local musicians who have consistently championed these values through their songs and lyrics. All of them have recently come out with tracks that act as a torch lit for peace. Here, they talk about how music adds fuel to that fire, keeping the flame alive in the process.

Going for the jugular