Radical Poetry of Protest and Resistance

ZAMEENE GUNGUNATI HAIN   Date : 30 th  March, 2019 Time : 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm Venue : CR 12, Ambedkar University Delhi, Kashmere Gate Campus Organizing Members: Divya Sharma Ganesh Gautam Kavita Rawat Rahul Kumar Satyapriya Vialthiansiam On 30 th  March, the students of Radical Poetry of Protest and Resistance organized “ Zameene Gungunati hai ”- an interlocution between space and identity, an event attempting to understand this convergence through various art forms and range from contemporary to folk. Concept Note : The existence  of identity  converges with space to create certain boundaries through which we limit and identify ourselves. The stories of our being unspool s  itself in an assorted manner from the origins of the place that it belongs to. A definitive framing o f identities along with space provides an understanding of the sociocultural  realities practices within the society. Any attempt at narrating...

Group report of the event Date : 10 th April, 2019 Time : 3:30 PM – 6:30 PM Venue : Classroom 12, Ambedkar University Delhi campus Organisers : Group 1- Soumya Duggal, Swati Group 2 – Sukriti, Sparshna, Kirti Group 4- Sristi, Manan, Udham, Shalini __________________________________________________________________ Aim : To create a space for dialogue on radical poetry of protest and resistance with focus on understanding of academia, mushaira, and YouTube as sites of resistance. Conception : The process of conceiving an idea for the event took a long time, in the stretch of which the original concept changed several times. We considered many contemporary issues in which protest was articulated through poetry. For instance, we looked at how Indian poets have been speaking out against the rise of extreme nationalism in India in the last few years, an evidence of which was the threat of war being fuelled by jingoistic celebration of the Balakot air strikes post...

Beyond The Looking Glass O9 March 2019  Ambedkar University, Delhi (Kashmere Gate Campus) Contributors: Group 3- Garima Plawat, Nobby Roseatte Uttam and Tuba Firoz Group 5- Varuna Yadav, Kanika Ahuja and Samarth Grover Group 9- Dhiman Das, Muskan Khanna and Payal Ghusain On 09 March 2019, the students of Radical Poetry of Protest and Resistance organized the event “Beyond the Looking Glass” - a day long celebration of raising awareness and opposing the notions of Lookism .  An article on Huffington Post describes Lookism as “ the interpersonal bias and structural disadvantages that accrue to those who are often labeled unattractive, ugly, different or disfigured.” After a point, it is really not people who practice Lookism on others. It’s this systematic indoctrination of always looking perfect, of adhering to the cannon of some great beauty, that the society self destructs. It’s an umbrella term which encompasses in itself all those subtle...