Families of Umar Khalid, other jailed anti-CAA activists hold virtual meet to honour them
They spoke to audiences from around the country and media about their experience of fighting for justice and how they are coping up without their loved ones during the month of Ramzan.
By Usama Hazari| Updated: 24th April 2021 7:58 pm IST
Hyderabad: Jailed anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) activist Khalid Saifi has been tortured, beaten, and even urinated on, alleged his wife Nargis Safi on Thursday. Nargis, while narrating his ordeal in prison, said that her husband also bore communal slurs, but that he was still smiling when she saw him during a hearing.
Anamika has won the Sahitya Akademi award for the year 2020 for her poetry collection
Tokri mein Digant: Therigatha 2014. She is a celebrated feminist poet writing in Hindi. I use the word “feminist” deliberately, because Anamika’s corpus of literary works has given a powerful voice to the women’s cause.
Feminist studies across the globe have celebrated the emergence of women writers in the literary canon, which has actually changed the optics. When lived experiences are shared by women through their writings, it empowers them to rip apart the social, political, economic and familial structures which have always denied them the right of being equals and made them feel subjugated.