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Meet the musicians challenging India's rising inequality and untouchability

"Our role is to counter injustice with justice and healing, war with peace, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love."

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This article was originally published by Waging Nonviolence.

 WNV/Puspha Achanta.
WNV/Puspha Achanta.

Kabir Kala Manch’s first performance at a Songs of Protest event in Bangalore in September 2013. Credit: WNV/Puspha Achanta.

In early April 2015, three courageous and revolutionary musicians from Kabir Kala Manch — Sachin Mali, Ramesh Gaichor and Sagar Gorkhe — will have completed two years of unjust incarceration in Maharashtra, a western-Indian state.