STAFF REPORTER
GUWAHATI: Popular singer Zubeen Garg has lent his voice to an English music video with an aim to garner global support against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). The music video titled “Motherland” focuses on the ongoing socio-political situation of Assam and the rest of the Northeast, has been made available on YouTube recently. The video is a product of band Cosmic Horizon.
The song begins with a wake-up call to “My own people to speak to anyone who so- wiped out from our own motherland.” It goes on, “Whenever I look around all I see is unrest in my land” and asks all the people of every nation “Can’t you hear our SOS?”. The song says the land of Assam needs to be saved as “it is in filthy hand.” The music video shows people hitting the streets braving police baton, many holding gamosa and placards with anti-CAA slogans. According to the band Cosmic Horizon the music video is a “humble & sincere musical effort” to draw people’s attention at the national and international arena for a permanent and final justice on the illegal migration issue.
Zubeen is now a familiar face of the ongoing anti-CAA protests across the State. The singer has been criticizing both the Centre and Assam Government for bringing the Act. He has been uniting the artistes’ community to join the ongoing movement.