Music video: Khadar ki Ladkiyan [Khadar Girls]

Khadar Girls is a freestyle song written, sung and performed by women living in Madanpur Khadar - a slum resettlement colony in Delhi's urban peripheries. It shows how they are excluded from the city while riding the tide of India's digital urban age. The song charts their personal stories of mobility and movement - forced eviction from slums to resettlement colonies in the peripheries, as well as their daily struggles with poor infrastructure, transportation and gender based violence in the home and the city. The song co-produces with the women, an alternate visual language and rhetoric that uses digital technologies to speak back and gender the future Indian smart city.

Principal Investigator: Prof. Ayona Datta

Funded by: Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK Partners: King's College London, Safetipin and Jagori

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