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“We played the tarpa in the [2018] <a id="5181" linktype="page">Long March</a> and we are playing the tarpa today too. We play it at all important events,” says Rupesh Roj, referring to the wind instrument he is carrying. Rupesh is among the farmers from Maharashtra going towards Delhi this week – in vans, tempos, jeeps and cars – in support of other farmers, many of them from Punjab-Haryana, who are protesting at the capital’s borders.After the new farm laws were passed in Parliament in September this year, lakhs of farmers have been protesting across the country, demanding these laws be scrapped. Around noon on December 21, around 2,000 farmers from nearly 20 districts of Maharashtra – though mainly from Nashik, Nanded and Palghar – gathered at the Golf Club ground in central Nashik for a jatha, a vehicle morcha to Delhi. They have been mobilised by the All India Kisan Sabha, affiliated with the Communist Party of India (Marxist). Of these, around 1,000 have continued journeying beyond the Madhya Pradesh border, going towards the country&#39;s capital city.Among those who gathered in Nashik was 40-year-old Rupesh from Palghar’s Vada town, who belongs to the Warli  community. “We Adivasis have a lot of shraddha [respect] for our tarpa,” he says. “Now we will play and dance our way to Delhi.”

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‘We will play and dance our way to Delhi’

“हम हंसते, गाते और झूमते हुए दिल्ली पहुंचेंगे”

’’ہم ہنستے، گاتے اور جھومتے ہوئے دہلی پہنچیں گے‘‘

‘ഡല്‍ഹി യാത്രയില്‍ ഞങ്ങള്‍ താര്‍പാ വായിക്കുകയും നൃത്തം ചെയ്യുകയും ചെയ്യും’

“নাচি-বাগি আমি দিল্লী পামগৈ”

இசையும் நடனமுமாக தில்லிக்குச் செல்வோம்

‘અમે નાચતા-ગાતા દિલ્હી પહોંચીશું'

‘ଆମେ ଦିଲ୍ଲୀ ଯାଏ ଗୀତ ଗାଇ ନାଚି ନାଚି ଯିବୁ’

ʼದೆಹಲಿಯ ತನಕ ನಾವು ನುಡಿಸುತ್ತಾ, ಕುಣಿಯುತ್ತ ಹೋಗುತ್ತೇವೆʼ

হেসে, খেলে, গান গেয়ে আমরা দিল্লির পথ পার করে যাব

'ਦਿੱਲੀ ਤੱਕ ਦੇ ਆਪਣੇ ਰਸਤੇ ਵਿੱਚ ਅਸੀਂ ਨੱਚਦੇ ਅਤੇ ਖੇਡਦੇ ਜਾਵਾਂਗੇ'

‘आम्ही नाचत खेळत दिल्ली गाठू’

Nashik

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‘We will play and dance our way to Delhi’

Around 1,000 farmers from various districts of Maharashtra, many of them Adivasis, are trying to join the protestors in Delhi – in vans, tempos, jeeps and cars. It is a colourful and determined caravan

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