How the slogan was embraced across India.
| | | | | | | As the “hum kya chahte, azadi” (We want, freedom) slogan reverberates in protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act across India, Kashmir looks bemusedly at the development. It was here in the streets of Srinagar that the chant was born in the early nineties, and, with addition of more lines over the years, went on to become a veritable anthem for the separatist movement in the region.
But its political moorings and identification with Kashmir struggle restrained its adoption on a wider scale. That’s until the CAA happened. The slogan’s pithy quality, its emotional pull and amenability to diverse interpretations has endeared itself to a people engaged in resistance against what they see as a discriminatory law.
People across the country have embraced the words and flow of the chant but reimagined its import. |
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