Tonight @prarthnasingh is launching her amazing book project “Har Shaam Shaheen Bagh: One Hundred Days of Resistance “
Come join her at the @photobookcafe 6-9pm 22 June 2022
The Shaheen Bagh movement was born in the eponymous working-class neighbourhood, on a frigid Delhi winter night in 2019, when a small group of Muslim women came out of their homes and sat down in protest. They had occupied a stretch of road on one of the busiest highways in the capital. Mostly housewives, the women who had never been involved in a political movement before were standing up against the Citizenship Amendment Act. The corresponding Bill, which had been passed with urgency and opacity through Parliament just a few days before, was designed to strip the Constitution of India of its promise of religious equality.