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Tribune news serviceAmritsar November 23The relationship between poetry and protests isn't new. The poetry has been an integral part of literary tradition of Punjab and contributed in social cultural and political movements. Even the Bhakti Movement had its fair share of protest poetry challenging the prevailing social practices and dispensations of those times by the Sufis Bhaktas and Sikh Gurus. The freedom struggle raised the pitch of protest poetry with 'Mera Rang De Basanti Chola' and 'Pagri Sambhal Jatta' followed by the leftist progressive movement feminism and Dalit voices in the post-Independence period. Highlighting and celebrating this genre of poetry an online session of 'Protest Poetry' curated by Sarbjot Singh Behl an academician and a poet was orgniased by the Majha House..