Hafta 323: Covid surge, assembly elections, and Scania scandal
The podcast where we discuss the news of the week.
10 Apr, 2021
This week on NL Hafta, Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal and Jayashree Arunachalam are joined by Kavitha Muralidharan, an independent journalist.
Kavitha speaks about whatâs driving the assembly election campaign in Tamil Nadu. It s difficult to understand the mood of the people this time because we don t have Karunanidhi and Jayalalithaa. They have been driving the elections in Tamil Nadu for the last 50 years. There s no clear replacement yet, she says.
Laying out the various possibilities, Kavitha adds, If the DMK comes to power it would primarily be because we have had 10 years of AIADMK and the people seem to have become tired of it.â
The song includes both Punjabi, Tamil version of ‘Hum Dekhenge
JALANDAR: Themed on Iqbal Bano’s rendition of Faiz Ahmad Faiz’s ghazal ‘Hum Dekhenge’, a song has been produced in Punjabi and Tamil. In Punjabi, it has been titled Hai Sada Haq (it’s our right) and in Tamil, it is Nee Ajanthey (fear not).
What is more remarkable that even the Punjabi version has been sung by two Tamil singers – Vedanth Bharadwaj and Bindhu Malini.
In the 4.24-minute song, images and video footage of farmers’ protest, including those when they were crossing barricades, have been used.
Uploaded on YouTube by Vettiver Collective, the song is a ‘Justice Rocks’ initiative by #Madrasis4Punjabis, a hashtag created to convey solidarity from the deep south of India to protesting farmers from Punjab and Haryana. The producers said, “We share your pain and resonate with your concern…”