India, Aug. 3 -- Standing on the Indus was performed at Harkat Studios in Mumbai on July 31.

Standing on the Indus has this hard-hitting moment where you say, "Protest keeps you alive and your enemy awakened." Please explain.

This statement really captures the goal of a protest. If you don't protest, if you just suffer and submit, you become a coward. To protest is to say "No". You may not have the power to fight back or overcome or win. But when you say that your conscience will not allow you to keep silent, and you start to protest, that brings you alive.

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