Political threats, police pressure, and now, even a virus — the women of Mumbai Bagh have continued to defy all odds to soldier on against the amended citizenship law and the National Register of Citizens. Apart from coming up with songs, posters and poetry, their collective resilience has found new expression: an azaadi quilt. From "khauf se azaadi" (freedom from fear) to "zor se hasne ki azaadi" (freedom to laugh aloud), the patchwork quilt, now around 40-feet long, embodies various definitions of freedom, in Hindi, English, Urdu and Gujarati, that the women have come up with.

One of the embroidered pieces