Friends and mentors of imprisoned student activist Umar Khalid, Banojyotsna Lahiri, Anirban Bhattacharya and Shuddhabrata Sengupta join forces TNM Executive Editor Sudipto Mondal talks about his book ‘Umar Khalid and His World’.
Guests read excerpts from the book and talk about their student days at JNU, the formation of BASO, the evolution of the anti-CAA protests and what Shaheen Bagh meant to the movement. Speakers also discuss the distance that liberal society maintains from Sharjeel Imam, another student activist who has been imprisoned for more than six years.
Sudipto also invites them to discuss the prioritization of the individual over ideology in recent political history, in the context of actor Vijay’s election victory in Tamil Nadu.
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Camera: Ajay R.
Producer: María Teresa Raju
Editor: Dharini Prabaharan
Design: Krishna Kumar
