By the late 1980s, all that the video buccaneers needed was an unassuming location to perform the act of copying the film (a religious site, in this case), a handful of televisions, video recorders, equalisers, an adaptor and the master copy of the film to be duplicated... The video moment in Bombay, simultaneously ephemeral and viral, was murky, with its key players constantly switching sides of the law, sometimes to provide a false front to the mafia in the film business, and sometimes by fully laundering their black money into legitimacy.
The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre, took place on 13 April 1919. A large peaceful crowd had gathered at the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, Punjab, British India, to protest against the Rowlatt Act and arrest of pro-independence activists Saifuddin Kitchlew and Satyapal.
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south asian diaspora students protest in solidarity of freedom for palestine, chanting for azadi (adopted from kashmiri slogans against occupation)
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arre hum kya chahte? AZADI !
palestine ki AZADI !
cheen ke lenge AZADI !
hain haq humara AZADI !
cheekh ke bolo AZADI !
chillake bolo AZADI !
jor se bolo AZADI !
columbia main AZADI !
cornell main bhi AZADI !
palestine main bhi AZADI !
palestine maange AZADI !
aadhi raat main AZADI !
aadhi raat ko AZADI !
arre hum kya bole AZADI!
baaki sunn le AZADI!
columbia bole AZADI !
cornell bole AZADI !
cheen ke lenge AZADI!
biden sunn le AZADI !
netanyahu sunn le AZADI !
modi sunn le AZADI !
columbia wale AZADI !
cornell bole AZADI !
nyu bole AZADI !
nypd se AZADI !
cheen ke lenge AZADI !
hain haq humara AZADI !
what do we want AZADI !
what do we want now AZADI !