Bindhulmalini's latest song shows solidarity to protesting farmers

Singer

Bindhumalini

Narayanaswamy on Monday shared a video of a track, titled, Nee Anjathey (Fear Not), Hai Saada Haq (It’s Our Right). The

song

shows the plight of the

farmers

in the country and the protest that has been on in Delhi. The song, sung by Vedanth Bharadwaj and Bindhumalini herself, is in two languages,

Tamil

and

Punjabi

.

The singer took to her social media to pen a message about the ongoing protests. Bindhumalini wrote, "FEARNOT December 2020: Indian farmers are camped outside Delhi demanding the scrapping of corporate-friendly farm laws.

Nee Anjathey (Fear Not), Hai Saada Haq (It’s Our Right) is a Justice Rocks initiative by #Madrasis4Punjabis -- a hashtag created to convey solidarity from the deep south of India to the

protesting

farmers from Punjab and Haryana. We share your pain and resonate with your concern over the manner in which the nation’s resources and people’s labour are being handed over to large corporations. Farmers have been denied fair prices for their produce and fair compensation for their labour for too long. The new farm laws make a bad situation worse and allow large corporations to hoard produce and control the market. This is not merely an issue for farmers, although that is of utmost concern. It is an issue concerning everyone who eats. If you eat, you owe it to the farmer. If you eat, the farm laws will affect you. If you eat, then you must speak out.

Nee Anjathey was conceived in Tamil, with lyrics by Tamil songwriter P. Kadirmozhi set to the tune made famous by Iqbal Bano’s rendition of Faiz’s Hum Dekhenge. The Tamil verses were translated to English by Kavita Muralidharan, and further to Punjabi by Rivi Ghuman. One stanza from Faiz’ original translated to Tamil by Mangai and Ponni during the anti-CAA protests is used in conclusion. The entire song is sung in Punjabi and Tamil by two Madrasis – Vedanth Bharadwaj and Bindhu Malini (sic)."