Aurangabad, Maharashtra •
Apr 14, 2024
Meera Umap: singing in the change
A little girl from Matang community singing for alms with her parents in the villages of Maharashtra, grows up to be a revolutionary Shahir. Playing ‘dimadi’, a small percussion instrument and singing Bhim geet, she spreads the message of Babasaheb. Here is her story on the occasion of Ambedkar Jayanti on April 14, 2024
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Keshav Waghmare
Keshav Waghmare is a writer and researcher based in Pune, Maharashtra. He is a founder member of the Dalit Adivasi Adhikar Andolan (DAAA), formed in 2012, and has been documenting the Marathwada communities for several years.
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Medha Kale
Medha Kale is based in Tuljapur, Maharashtra and is the Marathi Translations Editor at the People's Archive of Rural India. She has worked in the field of women and health.
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Medha Kale
Medha Kale is based in Tuljapur, Maharashtra and is the Marathi Translations Editor at the People's Archive of Rural India. She has worked in the field of women and health.
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Pratishtha Pandya
Pratishtha Pandya is a Senior Editor at PARI where she leads PARI's creative writing section. She is also a member of the PARIBhasha team and translates and edits stories in Gujarati. Pratishtha is a published poet working in Gujarati and English.
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Labani Jangi
Labani Jangi is a 2020 PARI Fellow, and a self-taught painter based in West Bengal's Nadia district. She is working towards a PhD on labour migrations at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata.
