Today, Youth ki Awaaz has released citation standards in 12 languages and are inviting authors to publish their pieces in these regional languages.
About Awaaz
Awaaz, an initiative for regional writers, editors, and readers to collaborate and share their stories, ideas, and experiences in their own language, has been launched on 21st February, celebrated as International Mother Language Day. The platform aims to exponentially increase the discourse around socio-legal issues in regional languages and give equal representation to these languages and stories in the national discourse.
Conceptualized by Rohit Sharma, Awaaz aims to bring regional language communities together as a collective. The initiative has created citation standards in 12 regional languages: Odia, Urdu, Punjabi, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Assamese, Kannada, Gujarati, Marathi, and Bengali. This citation standard is a culmination of two years of effort by around 35 authors. This is accompanied by a thought-provoking note written by Professor Upendra Baxi, who is currently a professor at the University of Warwick and Jindal Global Law School.
The reliance on mainstream Indian languages has led to the invisibilization of stories and issues of communities speaking other languages. This has resulted in a lack of agency for these marginalized communities. Awaaz aims to give equal representation to these languages and stories in the national discourse to be heard and to ultimately imagine a nation where language is no barrier to speaking up.
The community will be hosted on Youth Ki Awaaz and is supported by an ever-expanding network of partner organizations, including Bar and Bench, Lawctopus, Manupatra, Nyaaya, and SCCOnline.
” This effort is a small tribute to my guru Shamnad Basheer, an Indian legal scholar and pioneer who worked on making legal education accessible for underprivileged students,” said Rohit Sharma, founder of Awaaz Initiative. “By creating a platform that brings regional language communities together, we hope to give these communities the agency they deserve and create a more inclusive national discourse.”
How to Submit?
If any writer/author wants to submit a piece in your language, send it to awaaz@youthkiawaaz.com, with the language mentioned in the email’s subject. The themes included for the purpose of publication are Culture, Human Rights, Identity Rights and Education. You can submit your pieces till the April 10, 2023.
Themes
The authors can email their pieces to awaaz@youthkiawaaz.com and can write in the following themes:
1. Culture: cultural diversity/inclusivity across language and regions, including pop culture, life, relationships
2. Human rights: all socio, political, economic and legal issues pertaining to justice
3. Education: colleges, exams and education scenario with intersections
4. Identity rights: caste, class, gender, minorities, religion, sexuality rights All themes can be further used with specific intersections of gender, climate change, sexual reproductive rights, caste and more such thematics.
Contact Information
For more information about Awaaz, please visit https://www.youthkiawaaz.com/awaaz/.
Note: Lawctopus is proud to be the media partner of this event.
Source: Lawctopus
