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Marathi poet Narayan Surve (1926-2010) recites his poem “Karl Marx” in Saacha, The Loom (2001).

This entire area from Mahim to Tardeo, from Byculla to Delisle  Road, these were all working class areas.  There was a workers’ theatre movement, working class writers, folk theatre–a rich working class cultural world! This was before 1960. There would be massive public meetings on various issues–national struggle, wages, bonus, protests against atrocities…huge meetings of workers! I’ve listened to Babasaheb Ambedkar’s Nare Park speech, Comrade Dange, the greatest leader in those days, I’ve heard him on several occasions. I was his follower and used to be impressed by his ideas, which were simple and clear. Thus the working class was involved in social, cultural, and political spheres and I was also a part of it. There was a kind of spiritedness to all this. Once I had to go underground. The police came to arrest me because of my political activity. The workers hid me in a room and a couple of them stood outside to tell the police that they knew nothing! This spiritedness made me decide–workers, these are my heroes!

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Saacha, The Loom (2001)