Kanhaiya Kumar’s ‘azadi’ speech gets people to demand ‘azadi’ from daily-life problems

The word 'azadi' has gained firm ground in public discourse and has almost become a movement.

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The word ‘azadi’ has gained firm ground in public discourse and has almost become a movement after JNU students’ union president Kanhaiya Kumar’s fiery speech before his arrest on February 12 and after his release on March 3. Soon after his release Thursday, he delivered a powerful speech which has now come to be known as ‘azadi’ speech. He threw some very catchy and hard-hitting one-liners, ‘We want azadi within India, not from India’ being one.

While the hashtag #Azaadi has been trending on and off since the last month with Twitterati floating opinion on casteism, feudalism, communalism, here are people demanding ‘azadi’ from real-life problems.

Okay, that’s serious but legit?

Nahi chahiye
Triple Talaaq waad se Azaadi
Burkhawaad se Azaadi
Fatwa se Azaadi
4 biwi se Azaadi
Duniya flat hain kehne ki azaadi
1/n

— General Aladeen (@aladeen_in) February 23, 2016

They got a little carried away…

Ab khud se azaadi toh sirf maut de sakti hai ya phir ishq…

— Farhal (@farhalic) February 23, 2016

@kunfaaya.
Azaadi ke Ghaddaroun se Azadi
Angrez ke Ghulamoun se
Baapu ke Hatyaroun se
Godse ke vicharoun se..
Mout ke saudagar se Azadi

— Engineer Shareef (@ishareef639) February 23, 2016

Like totally!

Azaadi sly tweets se.

— Joov (@pepper_smoker) February 23, 2016

SumAll is becoming a paid service. ‘X no followed,Y no unfollowed’ wale tweets se Azaadi 😛

— শেখর (@MangoBwoy) February 23, 2016

Haha

Fake profile maange azaadi,
Original se azaadi,
Likh kar lenge azaadi,
Hame chahiye azaadi. https://t.co/Bx7mwFpziV

— Mahesh Jagga (@MaheshJagga) February 22, 2016

This one watches a lot of TV

Dalaal Arnab Goswami se Azaadi,
Tihari @sudhirchaudhary se Azaadi,
Taal thoku @sardanarohit se Azaadi,

Journalism ko chahiye inse Azaadi.

— Rozz Marrie (@rozzmarrie) February 22, 2016

Third world problems!

I also want Azaadi from work :)

— Vijay (@centerofright) February 22, 2016

And there were few who ready to take away all sorts of ‘azadi’ people were demanding

“Bandook ki nok pe AZAADI” #LOL … Never heard something more funny. I’ll demolish ur AZAADI single handedly & I don’t need a pin 😁

— Blue Eyes (@NeelakshiGswm) February 20, 2016

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