Tag: Dadis of Shaheen Bagh

By Aviral Anand Salma Usmaani, who works with an international cosmetic brand in Dhanbad, said, “We just want to live in peace…the government needs to understand, ‘Maa aur mulk badla nahi jaata’ (The mother and the motherland cannot be changed).” Indian Express report from Wasseypur, Bihar, on an anti-CAA protest, Jan 22, 2020. The assertion in the comment above, while not explicitly equating the mulk with maa, can be reasonably seen as be making that very correspondence. Just as one does not (or cannot) change one’s mother, similarly one does not (or...