azadi

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1. South AsiauncountableFreedom, independence.

   As we were leaving the area we were surrounded by girls and women shouting ‘We want Azadi’.

   2014, Urvashi Butalia, Speaking Peace: Women’s Voices from Kashmir, India: Zubaan Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →ISBN

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   Ali took a cup of tea, and Wajahat stopped conversation till the waiter left and then continued, “We can also take arms and fight for our Azadi. We should prove that we are not cowards. We can also fight for our cause, for our rights.”

   2014, Tarif Naaz, Mayhem in Paradise, Notion Press, →ISBN, →ISBN

   The call for azadi was semantically rich, able to incorporate within it a critique of different forms of patriarchal violence, control, humiliation and censorship.

   2021, Boaventura De Sousa Santos, Bruno Sena Martins, The Pluriverse of Human Rights: The Diversity of Struggles for Dignity, Milton: Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, →OCLC, →ISBN