Our culture, our identity! Our identity, our right!
Welcome to Ek Potlee Ret Ki
We are a cultural rights and public action collective committed to truth-telling, justice, and memory.
Here, we work alongside communities across the Indian subcontinent to protect disappearing knowledge systems, hold space for stories silenced by power, and reimagine the future through art, activism, and care.
Thank you for walking with us.
Vision
To promote cultural justice and celebrate diversity
Purpose
Ek Potlee Ret Ki (Kaani Nilam in Tamil) is an artist-activists collective working to recognise aspects of cultures and their practices as constitutionally guaranteed fundamental human rights. We endeavour to acknowledge and protect pluralism in the Indian subcontinent by collectivising, educating, organising and advocating for justice
Values
Intersectionality, inclusion, solidarity