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17/06/2026

गिरफ़्तारी के दौरान, नाज़िम हिक़मत का मनोबल तोड़ने और उन्हें ज़लील करने के लिए जो यातनाऍं दी गयीं उसके बारे में नाज़िम हिक़मत -
स्पानी भाषा के महान क्रान्तिकारी कवि पाब्लो नेरूदा को, रिहाई के बाद, नाज़िम ने बताया कि जब हर तरह से परेशान करके वे मुझे तोड़ नहीं पायें, तो उन्होंने मुझे एक ऐसी तंग जगह बन्द कर दिया, जहाँ घुटनों-घुटनों पाखाना उफन रहा था। बदबू और गन्दगी से मेरा सर चकराने लगा और लगा कि मैं बेहोश होकर गिर जाऊँगा। तभी यक्-ब-यकू मुझे ख़्याल आया कि दुश्मन मुझ पर नज़र रख रहा है। वह तो चाहता ही है कि मैं इस सबसे घबरा कर टूट जाऊँ और कीड़ों की तरह बजबजाऊँ! और बस, यह सोचते ही मेरी झुकी हुई गर्दन तन गयी, सीना फूल गया और गले की पूरी आवाज़ में मैंने गाना शुरू कर दिया। तरह-तरह के, इश्क़ और मोहब्बत के नग़मे, मेरी अपनी नज़्में, जहाज़ियों और किसानों के लोकगीत, मार्चिंग साँगः ग़र्ज़ यह कि जितना जो कुछ मुझे याद था, जो कुछ मैं याद कर पाया, वो सब भरपूर उठान के साथ गाया।.... और, बिरादर, उन्हीं गीतों ने, मेरे गले की उसी आवाज़ ने दुश्मन के मंसूबों को पस्त करने की मुझे ताक़त दी।...

"The judge who asks what an artist – "who is not a worker, not an employee" – is doing in an industrial area is basicall...
16/06/2026

"The judge who asks what an artist – "who is not a worker, not an employee" – is doing in an industrial area is basically asking why an artist is an artist at all."-
Remaining part of Shuddhabrata Sengupta's article for The Wire (continued from our previous post).

"Sympathy is a crime. Empathy, an offence. These are the misdemeanours that Srishti stands accused of in the court of th...
15/06/2026

"Sympathy is a crime. Empathy, an offence. These are the misdemeanours that Srishti stands accused of in the court of the additional sessions judge in Noida." Shuddhabrata Sengupta writes for The Wire.

Free Srishti Gupta, Free Akriti Chaudhary!Join Protest Demonstration against 2 months of incarceration of workers and ac...
13/06/2026

Free Srishti Gupta, Free Akriti Chaudhary!

Join Protest Demonstration against 2 months of incarceration of workers and activists in noida protest case.

Come with your chaks, brushes, guitars.
Join us as we sing songs about the dark times.

14th June, Sunday
11 AM
Jantar Mantar

An artwork by Srishti Gupta who is facing incarceration for her crime of speaking truth through her art and for standing...
11/06/2026

An artwork by Srishti Gupta who is facing incarceration for her crime of speaking truth through her art and for standing shoulder to shoulder with the oppressed workers of Noida. Today marks 2 months since she was illegally kidnapped and arrested by the UP police's male officials. Police in civil dress targeted and chased Srishti, Akriti, Manisha, and Rupesh and picked them on 11th April post sunset from inside the botanical garden metro station. Since then, Srishti is facing incarceration along with other activists including Akriti and Satyam Varma who have been slapped with the Draconian "National Security Act."

As a committed pro-people artist, Srishti has continued her art practice in Luksar Jail, Kasna (UP). She has been drawing paintings and sketches and is teaching art to the women prisonmates and workers through her art workshops. Activists have started collective reading and discussion sessions with the workers and prisoners and the prison library has become alive once again. Senior Journalist Satyam Varma has started his translation work in jail and is translating world classics into Hindi for the common people inside and outside prison. Imprisoned activists who celebrated May Day and 1857 revolt with the workers and prisoners are a source of inspiration for all of us who dream of a new world where no one is forced to live a life below dignity, where no human being is treated the way UP police has treated common workers and activists, and a world where no artist is tortured and harassed for standing with those who are the source of all art and sciences.

Members of Progressive Artists' League participated in a street painting gathering in solidarity with and demanding the ...
07/06/2026

Members of Progressive Artists' League participated in a street painting gathering in solidarity with and demanding the immediate release of Srishti, Akriti, and other activists falsely charged and imprisoned after the Noida workers' protests.

Artists, students, activists, pro-people intellectuals, and conscientious citizens participated in the gathering at the Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, and painted the streets of Kolkata with the slogans demanding the release of political prisoners. Friends of Srishti shared their memories, and songs of resistance were sung. Srishti, Akriti, and other activists have been in Luxar Jail in Kasna, UP, for almost the last two months, and UP police have left no stone unturned in ensuring that they don't get bail even after the police failed to produce a single piece of evidence against them. From slamming NSA charges on Akriti Chaudhary and Satyam Varma to the recent abduction and arrest of young DU student Yogesh Meena from Delhi University Campus, the witch hunt of artists, students, and activists has not stopped. Progressive Artists' League appeals to the artists' community in the country and beyond to organize such gatherings and events in solidarity with the falsely implicated workers and activists and demand their immediate release.

We are cancelling today's event due to unavoidable circumstances. Apologies for the inconvenience caused.
31/05/2026

We are cancelling today's event due to unavoidable circumstances.

Apologies for the inconvenience caused.

Celebrating Nazim Hikmet on his Remembrance DayPeople Above All -Poetry, Songs, Posters, Cultural Evening 6 PM onwardsSu...
29/05/2026

Celebrating Nazim Hikmet on his Remembrance Day

People Above All
-Poetry, Songs, Posters, Cultural Evening

6 PM onwards
Sunday, 31st May

Studio Montage: 267, Third Floor, Sukhdev Vihar, Pocket B, Nearest Metro Station - Sukhdev Vihar (Magenta Line).

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Progressive Artists' League joined a solidarity meeting in support of pro-people visual artist Srishti and other workers...
26/05/2026

Progressive Artists' League joined a solidarity meeting in support of pro-people visual artist Srishti and other workers and activists arrested under false charges by the UP police during the Noida workers' protest. The meeting was organised at Ratan Pally, Shantiniketan by the Kala Bhavan alumni of the Visva-Bharati University. Srishti has completed her MFA from Shantiniketan, West Bengal.

Srishti's friends and fellow artists from Shantiniketan spoke about her struggle and commitment towards truth. They condemned UP police and Uttar Pradesh government's brutal repression of a legitimate workers' protest that demanded increase in minimum wage, double payment of overtime, and better working conditions and dignity at workplace. There were also poetry and songs of resistance in solidarity with those currently imprisoned. Moumita, Tirtha, Sudipto, and Anshuj performed songs in solidarity with srishti and more than 300 unjustly implicated workers and activists in the noida violence case.

Shishir on behalf of PAL talked about our unflinching stand that only that art can be considered meaningful which serves the cause of the common working masses in the project of their liberation from all the material conditions causing their misery. Srishti imbibed that principle and continues to do so even while jailed. Anant spoke on behalf of The CaRWAN and narrated the unlawful detentions and arrests by the UP police and he situated this whole episode in the broader economic and political conditions of our country. He condemned UP Govt's step to invoke National Security Act on senior journalist Satyam Verma and theater artist Akriti Chaudhari.

One of the leading pro-people young artists of contemporary times, Srishti has been an active member of Progressive Artists' League, conducting workshops in working-class neighbourhoods and among aspiring artists. She has always taken her art to the sites of struggle, painting and sketching the spirit of the people and their lives. Today, she languishes in jail merely for being an artist with a conscience and a commitment to the people instead of a life of elite circles, exclusive galleries and studios. We appeal to the other justice-loving artist collectives in our country to come forward and speak loudly and openly in support of the workers and activists.

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