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• Singing on the beats of resistance : Relaa collective and the cultural activists of Maharashtra

  Inspired by the historical traditions of Jalsa and lok shahiri (folk performance and poetry), several anti-caste cultural groups are active in Maharashtra today. Samata Kala Manch and Yalgaar Sanskrutik Manch are part of the pan-India Relaa collective, using their songs to raise voices against inequality and oppression faced by marginalised communities.

  4 April, by GURLHOSUR Geetanjali

• Relaa Collective, Resisting Hindutva and Oppression

  Relaa, a pan-India collective of cultural artists and activists whose songs and music are born out of their lived experiences and struggles struggle to keep their activism alive in the ongoing Pandemic. Their struggle finds resonance amongst the larger cultural resistance to growing state oppression.

  4 April, by KUMAR Madhuresh

• Kabir Kala Manch: A History of Revolutionary Singing and State Repression

  Kabir Kala Manch founded in early 2000s has been at the receiving end of the state. As it grew in popularity its members faced incarceration for long years and continued oppression under successive governments.

  4 April, by GURLHOSUR Geetanjali

• India’s Anti-Citizenship Act Protests Inspires and Politicises a Generation

  In the winter of 2019, a group of Muslim women protesting the new citizenship amendment act at Shaheen Bagh in Delhi soon became the face of the resistance. Shaheen Bagh fuelled similar protests across the country, brought together social movements, trade unions, and politicized ordinary citizens.

  4 April, by KUMAR Sunil

• On the Riverine Islands of Assam : the Resistance of Miyah Poetry and the Women Writing It

  In the north eastern state of Assam, a community marginalised historically on the grounds of ethnicity and religion, Assamese Muslims of Bengal-origin find their voice through poems in the wake of a new citizenship act and reclaim the term ‘miyah’, an Urdu word for ‘gentleman’ turned a word of abuse. Young women poets from the community go further to raise questions of gender equality and violence.

  4 avril, par GURLHOSUR Geetanjali

• Raschakra: Reading Dissent, Resurrecting History and Being Witness

  As the Muslim community is being targeted with the emboldening of the right-wing Hindutva groups, a group of feminists came together to collectively read and revive historical texts as an act of resistance and being a witness.

  4 April, by KUMAR Madhuresh

• The Imphal Talkies N The Howlers: From the Hills and Valley of Manipur

  In the conflict-torn state of Manipur, where children have grown up amid the violence and terror of the Indian state and non-state actors, The Imphal Talkies N The Howlers, a folk-rock band, has been raising their voice against state atrocities, asserting their ethnic identity and searching for peace.

  4 April, by GURLHOSUR Geetanjali

• ANHAD: Carrying the Torch of Resistance for Two Decades

  Anhad is synonymous with the cultural resistance to communalism and fascism. For more than two decades it has given platform to new artists, actors and cultural performers and used cultural expressions to spread awareness on constitutional values and challenge the rising right-wing narrative.

  4 April, by KUMAR Madhuresh

• India’s Farmers Movement, Defeating Fascism, Heralding a New Protest Culture

  Since November 2020, one of the biggest and longest sit-ins the post-partition India by the farmers have been ongoing, who have led seize to Delhi at three major points on the highways connecting it to neighbouring states. Protest songs, slogans, changing gender norms, innovating and raising new questions, concerns and contributing to protest cultures, movement succeeding in forcing the government to accept their demand.

  4 April, by KUMAR Sunil

• Chanter au rythme de la résistance : le collectif Relaa et les militant·es culturel·les du Maharashtra

  S’inspirant des traditions historiques de la jalsa (une musique populaire) et des lok shahiri (les « poètes du peuple »), des groupes culturels anti-castes font désormais entendre leur voix dans le Maharashtra. Geetanjali Gurlhosur dresse le portrait de Samata Kala Manch et Yalgaar Sanskrutik Manch, deux groupes s’inscrivant dans un vaste collectif et qui dénoncent, à travers leurs chansons, les inégalités et l’oppression que subissent les communautés marginalisées.

  28 mars, par GURLHOSUR Geetanjali