‘Haan, Haan Naxali!’ proclaims Adivasi rapper in response to stigmatization
- 6 months ago
‘Haan haan Naxali,’ asserts Aman Kachchap, a 25-year-old Adivasi rapper from Jharkhand, who has turned the supposed ‘insult’ thrown at him by fellow students in a Ranchi school on its head, owning it as a tag often attached to the tribal community.
“I have tried to explain to the society that if one talks about one’s rights: water, forest land, then one is called Naxalite. And if this is so, then yes, I am a Naxal,” Kachchap tells Outlook’s Md. Asghar Khan, also reciting parts of his verse, written in the Nagpuri dialect of Jharkhand.
“I have tried to explain to the society that if one talks about one’s rights: water, forest land, then one is called Naxalite. And if this is so, then yes, I am a Naxal,” Kachchap tells Outlook’s Md. Asghar Khan, also reciting parts of his verse, written in the Nagpuri dialect of Jharkhand.