Ebook {Epub PDF} Shaheen Bagh: From a Protest to a Movement by Ziya Us Salam

Authors Ziya Us Salam and Uzma Ausaf take us on this glorious journey of the making of Shaheen Bagh and how it became a metaphor for resistance, spawning a hundred Shaheen Baghs across the country in a bid to restore the sanctity of the Constitution, the national flag and the national anthem. The exemplary Shaheen Bagh women—steadfast, resolute, united and almost unbelievable peaceniks—have experienced the worst, and lived to tell the tale. With their incredible powers of patience and abiding belief in ahimsa, they turned a protest into a satyagraha, even a movement. It started one bleak December evening. Authors Ziya Us Salam and Uzma Ausaf take us on this glorious journey of the making of Shaheen Bagh and how it became a metaphor for resistance, spawning a hundred Shaheen Baghs across the country in a bid to restore the sanctity of the Constitution, the national flag and the national anthem/5(81).

Ziya Us Salam and Uzma Ausaf's Shaheen Bagh: From a Protest to a Movement (Bloomsbury) collects personal accounts from people participating in the protests, so if you want to understand why they were protesting, here's a good start. Bloomsbury India meanwhile posted on twitter promoting its book on the protests titled, "Shaheen Bagh: From A Protest To A Movement" written by Ziya Us Salam and Uzma Ausaf, wherein it termed the protests as "glorious" and a "metaphor for resistance". Ziya Us Salam, who recently co-authored with Uzma Ausaf, the book, Shaheen Bagh: From a Protest to a Movement had this to say about the judgment: "The court has not considered whether there are any authorised sites available for protest. After all, if women from Gaya or Tonk need to protest.

Ziya Us Salam (born ) is an Indian author, literary critic, journalist and social commentator, who has worked for The Hindu Group since In addition to serving as the associate editor for magazine Frontline, he also wrote several columns on sociocultural issues and book reviews for the magazine. Shaheen Bagh: From a Protest to a Movement is the first book to document the resistance movement pioneered by Muslim women to uphold the Constitution of India. About the Author Ziya Us Salam is a noted literary and social commentator. This book recounts the Muslim women’s stir in Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh and its refusal to back down An excerpt from ‘Shaheen Bagh: From a Protest to a Movement’, by Ziya Us Salam and Uzma Ausaf.