Resisting Dictatorship, One Video at a Time
27.02.2024 At a time when big media platforms have deployed all their resources to glorify the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a video asking if India is headed towards dictatorship getting mass viewership assumes greater significance. She feels distraught because she does not get complete information what can I do to help him she depends on me for love, Every time she knows something incomplete, or one day she’ll stop asking Or when she will be reprimanded for asking one day suddenly some day taking a deep breath She will turn her face away quietly. These are the lines from late poet Raghuvir Sahay’s poem ‘Uska Man’. In the poem, he is talking about a woman. But, as is the case with every great poem, its pronoun can be used in different contexts. In the context of today’s India, does this pronoun ‘she’ represent the collective noun we know as public? Not getting information can be a reason for being distraught. Just as it is difficult for a woman to survive as an...