U P R I S I N G ?
A silent revolution is taking place under my nose in my house, in every household perhaps, on par with the women of Shaheen Bagh who are on the road and being vocal to save the constitution.
She didn't go to the road, she didn't tweet, she didn't raise her voice "azadi, azadi", she didn't draw the kolum on the street.....She didn't take part in Shaheen Bagh in the coldest.
Still she is one part of the protest and actively participated in her own capacity.
She enquired and wanted to know about atrocities of UP police and opined about the storming of police in jnu library and the attack by the masked goons. She needs an update on the arrest of Davinder Singh and the significance of 19th Jan. In her conversation, Hindi words like virodh, satta, samvidhan, mahila,and andolan are becoming frequent and fluent involuntarily, perhaps to the amusement of Amit Sha.
In spite of her little knowledge, Kaniaya Kumar, Savarkar, Raveesh Kumar, Godse, Faiz, Malviya are no more stranger to her. she knows considerably Rana Ayyub, Swara Bhaskar, Aishe Ghosh, Ladeeda and Nazma Aapi etc. She is happy that large amount of people are protesting on daily basis in different parts of the country. Silence of the khans makes her angry and the visit of Deepika makes her glad. She hums "Dekhenge.." amidst the cooker's notifications and mixie's shrills....
She is becoming well versed with alphabets like CAA, NPR, NRC, AMU, JNU, SC, EPIC#. In her free time, after the daily rituals, she checks out Aadhar Cards, VoterId, Ration Card, Bank pass book (they used to be in her safe custody) and looks for errors and make a note to take my life out. She would go to whatsapp and watch videos of the protests and messages. Recipes, dresses and trends have lost their charm to her.
She enters in the bedroom with a hot cup of tea this morning and reminds me of the time. She remembers something and asks about today's trivia. I scratched my head and remembered that today's is the hearing of PIL in the supreme court....on 22nd Jan.
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