And the irony?.The poem raged against injustice. Anita Dube turned it into a luxury commodity—proof not only that injustice is alive, but that it now wears silk gloves and sells itself as art. That a poem written in defiance was gutted,defanged,and stitched into velvet for profit

It’s shameful how far she’s gone—and how far her gallery is willing to go—just to dodge a simple truth: that Anita Dube built her art on a living poet’s words, and they both refuse to acknowledge or compensate him.

What Anita Dube has done isn’t a gesture of solidarity or resistance, it’s the oldest trick in the book, inherited from the same colonial masters: steal the voice,erase the name, and sell the illusion of originality. It is the systematic erasure of authorship in favour of profit.

I have sent legal notices. Demanded answers. Asked for accountability. In return: silence, half-truths, and insulting offers. I asked them to take the work down. They refused. The exhibition at Vadehra Art Gallery is on till the 26th of April.

This is outright cultural extraction and plunder—stripping authors of autonomy while profiting off their voices, especially those from marginalised backgrounds. Their work is used without their knowledge, precisely so they can be excluded from the wealth produced through it.

at an enormous price without ever telling me. This is not solidarity.This is not homage.This is not conceptual borrowing.This is theft.This is erasure.This is entitled section of the art world doing what it does best extracting,consuming, profiting while pretending radical.

Let’s be clear: if someone holds my poem in a placard at a protest, a rally, a people’s uprising I stand with them. But this is not that. This is my poem, written in velvet cloth, another carved in wood, hung inside a commercial white cube space, renamed, rebranded, and resold.

I discovered she had been using my poem for years including in a 2023 exhibition titled Of Mimicry, Mimesis and Masquerade,curated by Arshiya Lokhandwala and then again displayed in the India art fair '25.She didn’t mention this in our first conversation.She hid it Deliberately.

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. But the more I looked, the worse it got.

On 18th March 2025, a friend saw my words stitched into a work on display at Vadehra Art Gallery in Delhi and immediately called me. That was the first time I learned Anita Dube had taken my poem and turned it into her “art.”.

My name is Aamir Aziz. I am a poet. My poem Sab Yaad Rakha Jayega has been used without my knowledge, consent, credit, or compensation by the internationally celebrated artist Anita Dube.

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