The Latest On IIT-Kanpur's Faiz Shocker: Top Official Walks Back A Claim | Read
Is the IIT-Kanpur administration going back on a probe into whether Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz's iconic poem "Hum Dekhenge" - sung as a protest anthem for decades - provoke anti-Hindu sentiments? After first making the alleged "anti-Hindu" nature of the poem a focus of its investigation, the premier institute now claims the probe is much wider in its scope and relates to many allegations around a protest march last month by students at the campus, and that the poem and its contents are just one aspect of it.
