âYou ban our songs, weâll make new onesâ: Kanwar Grewal wonât stop singing of farmer protests
The Punjabi singer has released a second version of âAilaanâ after YouTube took down the original on the Indian governmentâs direction.
Anubhooti Gupta
âIf you can spare time to listen to our songs in order to ban them, you might as well listen to the demands of the farmers instead.â This is how the new version of the song
Ailaan by Kanwar Grewal
starts.
The original version of the song is no longer available online. It was removed from YouTube, after the social media giant received a legal demand from the Indian government.
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The songs are aggressively sung protest songs but none of the phrases or words used violate YouTube s standard guidelines.Â
Screenshots from the YouTube videos of one of the songs that was taken down.
Mohali: Two Punjabi songs about the farmersâ protest have been taken down from the YouTube India website. Supporters of the movement are calling this an attempt to kill songs of resistance.
A song on the farmersâ protest which gave a prominent punchline to the movement â
Faslaan de faisley kisaan karuga, or âAll farming decisions will be taken only by the farmersâ â is one of the songs that were taken down. The other one is