Highlights• Counterstorytelling analyzes how dominant stories maintain specific arrangements of power.• Counterstorytelling is a method of uplifting stories of people subjected to epistemic violence.• Counterstorytelling is a form of decolonial praxis that centers knowledges generated in struggle.• Decolonial counterstorytelling requires disrupting conventional modes of writing and representation.
Translated from the original 'Jamia ki Ladkiyan' in Urdu by Rashmi Varma) They unmask kings they launch revolutions through subtle glances the girls of Jamia As they tear apart the garb of patriarchy, people clear the path ahead when they embark stubbornly on their journey the girls of Jamia And when the police raise their batons, and the people throw stones And screams are heard from the slaughterhouse, and human breaths are scuffled the sighs are stifled, the eyes downcast and when people begin to pay obeisance to injustice and power and when the slaves tire of fighting the masters when the broken shards of humanity fall in pieces on the road they clench their fists and raise a cry the girls of Jamia
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