Why did Sahmat organise a mushaira for the Delhi Police?
The allegations that we took money from the Delhi Police are all baseless. We helped them in contacting the poets. But it's wrong to say that Sahmat became a cultural contractor for the Delhi Police. If I am working with 50 cops and can make even one of them secular, I think it is absolutely creditable.
Would Safdar have agreed to what Sahmat is doing today?
If you say Safdar wouldn't have, you would be wrong. In 1986, he organised a communal harmony march for which he took ads and free hoardings from the Congress. And posters were printed by Parle.
What about other issues Safdar fought for?
One organisation can't do everything. You can't go and ask Medha Patkar to leave Narmada and work for street children.
Why do you prefer to work from Mandi House instead of Jhandapur village where Safdar and Ram Bahadur were killed?
Jana Natya Manch goes to perform there every year. We do it in Mandi House. I don't see any contradiction in that.
