#1: Uttar Pradesh's Library Movement

Jai Savitri! Welcome to the first episode in the series of 'Resistance Radio' by Cinema of Resistance. The idea of Resistance Radio is to interpret our struggles and lives in the mainstream media through conversations with filmmakers, activists that can be circulated widely, and become a testimony of our current politics. It is also an established discourse that challenges status apparatus and projects different questions around intersectionality, caste, identity and gender.

In this episode Saurab and Vibhuti tell us about the Savitribai Library set up by Mamta Singh in Agrasar village, who runs on a self-sustaining model and inspires thousands of children and adults to think and read. Much like, Savitribai Phule's mission, Mamta is responsible for opening another set of libraries around her village and which started a library movement in Uttar Pradesh.