In April 2024, we recorded an interview with rural journalist Mandeep Punia, who has been on the ground covering the Farmers’ Protests since they first began in 2020. We will be screening an Al Jazeera documentary featuring his coverage of the 2020 Farmers’ Protests, as well as the interview we conducted regarding the 2024 protests. We will conclude with a Q&A with Mandeep Punia, who will be available live via video call.

NOTE;The Al Jazeera documentary is in English, however the recorded interview is in Punjabi, and we currently do not have English captioning.

Mandeep Punia, is an agricultural journalist who has been covering the Farmers Protests since they began in 2020. He is from a rural background, a child of farmers from Jhajjar, Haryana. Mandeep is passionate about reporting on agricultural issues from the frontlines, and amplifying the voices of those on the ground.

Dilpreet Kaur Anand, is a diasporic Punjabi antidisciplinary artist raised in the Bay Area, currently residing on unceded Ohlone land. They craft across physical and digital realms of ink, paint, textile, organic materials, video, and projection design. Their creative practice is an avenue for storytelling, existing at the intersections of community care and cultural continuity.

Sukhpreet Kaur Purewal, is a diasporic Punjabi-Sikh artist, community organizer, environmental steward and host of Gulab Gang. They were born on unceded Plains Miwok Land (Sacramento, California) and trace their roots to the land of the fiver rivers (Punjab) nestled in present-day Pakistan and India. Rematriation, ancestral reverence, necropolitics, and the necessity of ritual are central to all of their offerings. Their writing, photography, performance and storytelling is part-documentation, part-memorialization and part-hybridizing the sacred within us by activating deities of the land, waterways and natural world.