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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?
https://twitter.com/aladeen_in/status/702131358081003520
They got a little carried away…
https://twitter.com/farhalic/status/702103470913036288


Like totally!
https://twitter.com/pepper_smoker/status/702099668772081664
https://twitter.com/MangoBwoy/status/702050291202396161
Haha


This one watches a lot of TV
https://twitter.com/rozzmarrie/status/701722383980191744
Third world problems!


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

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