These cards are intended to illuminate and inspire – to show both the complexity and continuity of our struggles. We do this through showing the issues at stake, and how and why this is backlash; a timeline of events; the individual and collective actors working for and against backlash; and, finally, successful countertactics. […]
Rediscovering Empathy: Building Solidarity in Difficult Times in Uttar Pradesh, India
Humqadam is the story of quiet resistance. In the villages of Uttar Pradesh, where social polarisation was tearing communities apart, a group of veteran activists found themselves facing fear, not just around them, but within. This case study, as part of the Countering Backlash programme, follows their journey as they chose to respond, not with retreat, but with hope: rebuilding trust, reframing masculinity, and drawing strength from forgotten traditions of coexistence. […]