Women and students on vigil at Park Circus Maidan and those who frequent the sit-in have given a call to everyone to register their protest with a splash of colours.
Art Attack @ Park Circus, an art workshop, will be held on the protest ground from 3pm on Wednesday.
The organisers are expecting artists, students, teachers and anyone else to come and paint on chart papers, cloth or even the boundary walls of Park Circus Maidan to add colour to the protest against the “black laws of CAA-NRC & NPR”.
Arrangements are being made for acrylic paint and sketch pens. The artworks will be put up in one corner of Park Circus Maidan.
“We will set up a live art corner, which will be like a gallery displaying what people create. There will be colours for everyone to come and pick up a paintbrush and paint if they want to,” said Navamita Chandra, 25, one of the organisers of the art workshop and a regular at Park Circus and several other protests.
Wednesday is the 58th day of the Park Circus protest.
“Now more than ever our voices need to be stern and strong and unwaveringly united against the fascist forces. Let’s take to the Maidan, paint our protest with colours… let’s join hands with the protesters and colour the landscape with the vibrant hues of resistance. Bring your weapons — paintbrushes and colours — if you can,” reads a message to spread the word.
Asmat Jamil, one of the leaders of the Park Circus protest, said art could be the perfect medium of expression. “We have been peacefully protesting and it is through art that we will bring out the pain and problems of the people. The protest ground is a place of learning and it will help bring out the talent of the women who come here,” he said.
Women with children in their arms, those feeble because of age or ones who work to run the family and send their children to school are all part of the sit-in at Park Circus. It has not been easy for many of them but they have been taking turns to be there because voicing their protest has become important.
“It is a call to people of all communities and the majority Hindu community to come out and stand with the Muslim women. If Hindu men and women think it is not a matter of concern for them, they are wrong. If we don’t come out today, tomorrow terror will be at our doorstep irrespective of whether we are Muslims or Hindus,” said Chandra, a former Jadavpur University student.