When asked which woman she most admires, Bilkis, the notorious “Dadi” of Shaheen Bagh, replies without hesitation: “Jhansi Ki Rani” (Queen of Jhansi).
India’s warrior queen, who died in 1858 fighting British imperialism, is a symbol of India’s independence and an emblem of resistance to the British empire.
“She chased the British out of India,” Bilkis explains. “If we all come together, we can raise our voice and do anything.”
They may have been fighting different perpetrators, but to Bilkis their struggle against oppression and injustice is the same. “I am brave. Just like how Rani stood up for her rights and fought against injustice.”
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As chargesheet is leaked in the media, activist questions attitude of the Delhi Police.
Umar Khalid. Photo: BASO
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New Delhi: Political activist Umar Khalid told the court taking cognisance of the âconspiracyâ chargesheet in the Delhi Riots case that the women and men accused by the police in FIR 59/2020 were not facing a âmedia trial,â but an âinquisitionâ.
Khalid said that a newspaper he gets in Tihar jail carried a report on the first anniversary of the riots, with photos of some of the accused â Umar Khalid, Khalid Saifi, Devangana Kalita, Natasha Narwal, Meeran Haider and Asif Iqbal Tanha, and the headline â Delhi
The era of thoughtcrime
Last Updated: Sat, Feb 27th, 2021, 10:23:07hrs
In what is arguably his most memorable and increasingly his most relevant novel worldwide, 1984, George Orwell coined the term “thoughtcrime” it was a reference to social and political ideologies that were not in keeping with that of the ruling regime. Even before social media was imagined, intellectual activity of any kind possession of certain books, love of particular music, a gathering of kindred souls, even voicing opinions could be criminalised, not only in Oceania but in the real world. We have seen it happen in the USSR before it was Russia, in Iran after 1979, in China since the 1960s, and now countries which claim to be democracies have found ways to criminalise thought.