Between The Lines by Céline Zabad5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() My senses were too smitten to have observed a brief outline of her appearance, but keywords for her character-sketch could be: fiery, motherly and definitely a familiar voice if one pays attention. Meena Kandasamy for the first time, in realtime, echoing the ditto of what Shakur has to say. On 12th of March, in an air-conditioned hall, at the illustrious Jaipur Literature Festival, thankfully saved by the horrid heatwave and anxiety that scurrying footsteps emulate, I am listening to Dr. ![]() But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. In her autobiography, which she wrote after escaping to Cuba, Shakur wrote: ![]() In my days of navigating lives of fugitives and refugees around the world, I found Assata Shakur, the current political exile, former member of the Black Liberation Army, convicted in the first-degree murder, also the first woman to be on the list of FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists, who also happens to be the godmother of Tupac Shakur. ![]()
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