Mumbai Collective

We, a group of concerned citizens of Mumbai, are organising a two-day collective to reaffirm commitment to our constitutional rights.

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3/The panel discussion at Mumbai Collective on Feb 2020 was titled "Artists Against Communalism" Other speakers at the panel included Saeed Mirza, Anand Patwardhan, Sushant Singh, Zeeshan Ayub and Rasika Agashe.

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1/ At a time when defamation and contempt are used to silence free speech, we welcome the AG and SG refusal of permission to initiate contempt proceedings against Swara Bhasker. The panel at #MumbaiCollective2020 where the relevant comments were made
https://t.co/SKQyylOnY0

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2/News item on the Attorney General's refusal:

https://t.co/9036z2sTwP

News item on the Solicitor General's refusal:

https://t.co/56XYxhZzts

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Band 'Red River' — with Himanshu Saikia, Hopun Saikia, Ronnie PS, and Shibangs Chakraborty — brings songs of resistance to #MumbaiCollective2020 from the state of Assam.

Video: @SatyenKBordoloi

https://t.co/vvDcCmsx2h

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@SatyenKBordoloi Let's sing Faiz's "Hum Dekhenge" with Ananyaa Gaur. (3/3) #MumbaiCollective2020
https://t.co/777UFGUvOe

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Classical musician Ananyaa Gaur and guitarist Aditya Ashwath's rendition of Faiz's poems mesmerised the audience at #MumbaiCollective2020. (1/3)
Video: @SatyenKBordoloi
https://t.co/w073NOtveT

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@SatyenKBordoloi "Mujhse Pehli Si Mohabbat Mere Mehboob Na Maang", sings Ananyaa Gaur at #MumbaiCollective2020. (2/3)

https://t.co/6P5b2w83ls

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.@SubhashiniAli speaks of the gruesome violence meted out in UP during the protests against CAA and NRC. She gives an account of what Sadaf Jafar, Omar Rashid and others went through.

#MumbaiCollective2020

Video: @SatyenKBordoloi
https://t.co/JfxDhJKEpZ

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.@khanumarfa speaks about the Goli Maro culture, the culture of fake news, and how she is accused of being an Islamist based on one minute clip, spread by BJP IT cell.

Session 'The Clampdown on Dissent' at #MumbaiCollective2020

Video: @SatyenKBordoloi

https://t.co/VAFNUj50SL

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Abhijit Majumder enumerates the ways to curtail the freedom of speech in the academic space: First, by legal action; second, by administrative hassle; and, third, by delegitimising through social sanctions.

#MumbaiCollective2020

Video:@SatyenKBordoloi

https://t.co/McXDzsnUEx

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Prof M S Raghunathan, quoting Shakespeare, "O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason", speaks about the climate of unreason that murdered Gauri, Kalburgi, Dabholkar & Pansare

#MumbaiCollective2020

Video:@SatyenKBordoloi
https://t.co/NsTfVEmayK

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.@KanitkarT speaks about what academics should do: “It is our duty to encourage and facilitate inquiry, as well as to protest and dissent as citizens.”
Session 'Stifling Reason and Free Speech' at #MumbaiCollective2020
Video: @SatyenKBordoloi
https://t.co/IfQu9bEart

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Harsh Mander says RSS and BJP see this as completing the unfinished business of partition, and what actually we are witnessing is the unfinished business of freedom struggle being completed.

#MumbaiCollective2020

Video: @SatyenKBordoloi

https://t.co/BEkIgfeMdz

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Abhinav Chandrachud weighs in on the constitutionality of CAA at #MumbaiCollective2020. You must watch him presenting the inconsistencies in the act.
Incisive and articulate!

Video: @SatyenKBordoloi
https://t.co/FjXtDv5M1f

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.@tjoseph0010 says history is often a raw material used by contending versions of nationalism to create their own back histories. That is why history is the main target of the proponents of Hindutva.

#MumbaiCollective2020.

Video: @SatyenKBordoloi
https://t.co/xe3VPLg2c3

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@SatyenKBordoloi "देख तेरे संसार की हालत क्या हो गयी भगवान", sings Amrendra Dhaneshwar at #MumbaiCollective2020. (5/5)
https://t.co/W6LSZ0ATtt

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Neela Bhagwat, Shoma Sen, Amarendra Dhaneshwar and co. give a soulful performance at #MumbaiCollective2020. (1/5)
Video: @SatyenKBordoloi
https://t.co/EeC8W4rN8T

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@SatyenKBordoloi Neela Bhagwat sings Faiz Ahmed Faiz "बोल के लब आजाद है तेरे" at #MumbaiCollective2020. (4/5)
https://t.co/wXgkcw8ZWQ