New Delhi, March 24 -- It is not just at Shaheen Bagh we hear 'Azadi.' We have heard it before. Feminist activist Kamla Bhasin is credited to have raised the slogan in her lyrical chant at the women's conference in 1991 at Jadavpur University in West Bengal.
Especially wherever the youth have congregated to speak their mind out in the recent past, such a slogan has reverberated. Bold and beautiful they have come out, chanting slogans, reciting poems, displaying street plays, demonstrating their determination to call a spade a spade.
Kanhaiya Kumar had it sounded full-throated in his JNU speech in 2016. Ever since it became a national slogan, it has been used as a beating stick, as it were, against oppressive measures in society, against p...