Historically, Mai Bhago and Gadri Gulab Kaur, a freedom fighter from Sangrur who left her husband and the prospect of a safe life in the West to join the Ghadar movement and fight the British often come to mind.
Perhaps the most glaring example to demonstrate the struggle is a cultural one and it is between authoritarianism vs the will of the people is that of Nodeep Kaur.
Talking to her made me feel like I was talking to a lioness, not a middle-aged woman. Jaswant Kaur and her family have been at the borders for the last 25 days. She, and many other women and their families, journeyed from their pind (village) to Delhi via tractor.
Did I serve 22 years in army to hear the word terrorist?
“We’re farmers not harmers” agriculturists added. But, the authorities and media houses are representing them as a “terrorist” is it a right word for the folk who feeds the whole nation?
When an elderly Sikh farmer was featured in this segment he just addressed him as a farmer and praised his patience and resolution.
Gurpreet spoke of Mata Bhag Kaur, Mata Sharan Kaur, and Mata Sulakhni, as well as fighters from 1984, weaving stories of their resilience that she remembers for inspiration. “These Sikh women have fought hard and long battles and there are many such stories that I have grown up reading about.”
History has now been made in California which featured an ad endorsing the farmer's protest, happening in India's capitol of Delhi, before the media extravaganza of the Super Bowl. The yearly football championship is an American past-time where multi-national companies spend 10's of millions of dollar to grab the attention of the public at one of the greatest viewed events in American culture.
Not only has he brought awareness about the plight of the farmers to his 1million+ twitter followers, his $10,000 will surely be welcome to the charity organizations like Khalsa Aid at protests sites.
A crop of flowers in return of the police gesture for putting nails on our way