Kabir Kala Manch was formed in Pune in 2002 in the wake of the Gujarat riots, and is made up of students and young professionals from exemplary academic backgrounds, who performed protest poetry and plays in slums and streets, shaking up the cultural scene in Pune as they presented a voice for the voiceless. Through music and poetry, Kabir Kala Manch took up the cause of social inequality, exploitation of the underclasses, farmer suicides, female infanticide, Dalit killings and the widening net of corruption. The Kabir Kala Manch Defence Committee is made up of civil society activists. Kabir Kala Manch members are at an impressionable age where their ideological thinking is still in process and their work covers a wide spectrum of political ideas such as Ambedkarism, socialism and Marxism. They have never taken up arms.
They believe that the existence of the group is crucial as it creates space for dissent through shayari and songs that are much more effective than speeches. They are responsible artists who interpret art as a catalyst for social change. Unfortunately, for the State there is no distinction between Dalit protesters, activists and Naxalites.
- Dhawla (Deepak) Kama Dhengle
- Rupali Kaluram Jadhav
- Ramdas Santram Unhale
- Dada Walhba Waghmare
- Laxman Narsayya Kalleda
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