![]() ![]() It hit peak popularity when Delhi-based producer Dub Sharma constructed an entire track around the azaadi chant and sent all those in colleges at the time into a serious tizzy. The word revealed itself to the mainstream public consciousness (anybody in Kashmir would have the words ringing in their ears from the moment they were born) a few years ago when Kanhaiya Kumar – in what is now a seminal speech in the history of this BJP regime – listed out an array of things from which he wanted azaadi: Manuvaad, Brahmanwaad, Punjiraaj, Sanghwaad, to name a few. ![]() They all just politely disagree on who exactly the “establishment” is. But all of them, without exception, will sell it to the masses as the coming of an anti-establishment revolution. Here, political figures from across the spectrum come together to partake in a distortion of its meaning a collective bastardisation in whatever way they feel fit. Azaadi, of course, means freedom, but the manifold political heft that latches onto it makes it a word that has been violently flattened and tortuously stretched, twisted, turned, and transformed into an ideological battlefield. Hence, I will continue.In India, the word “azaadi” has the weight of the universe tied around its neck. But now, I have the support of my parents and teachers. But to me, there was also a concern as to what the world will say once I step out of my house. ![]() I had to explain that it is good to rap, how it is done and how much I love rapping. Talking about the difficulties that she has faced in her journey, Sania told India Today, “People here didn’t know what rap is and so I had to tell them about it. Her YouTube channel, ‘Saniya MQ’, already has over three thousand subscribers and she has even has a following on her Instagram page. Although she is yet to own a smartphone, Sania makes rap videos with the help of her friends and some of her videos have even gone viral. What makes her stand out from the rest of the kids in her school and her neighbourhood is the fact that Sania is a budding rapper and has been practising the art for the past three years. Daughter of a rickshaw driver, Sania is a student in class 11. Sania Mistri is a 15-year-old girl from the Govandi area in Mumbai. Move over Divine and Naezy, there’s a new ‘gully’ star on the block. Real-life 'Gully Boy': Mumbai Rickshaw Driver's Daughter Becomes Rapper ![]()
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