It was 9 pm on a cold January night when thousands of people assembled at Ram Leela Maidan to witness one of India’s finest statesmen – Atal Bihari Vajpayee …
Tag: CAA
Outside Jamia, a Handful of Protestors Keep Vigil Night and Day
Protesting for up to 20 hours a day, a few protestors outside Jamia are persevering on despite the cold to make their voices heard.
The Anatomy of Labelling
As soon as the protestors are shifted into the bracket of “them”, it becomes easy to discredit their arguments, their logic, their rationale, their pain and their demands.
Refuge in Love in Times of Anti-CAA Protests and Souring Family Ties
A tale of being stuck between pro-CAA WhatsApp University parents and my anti-CAA Assamese boyfriend.
The Saffron That Makes Us Indian
We have permitted the government to spin cobwebs for us to lay in. Wake up. India is burning.
A Letter to My Recently Turned Silent Friend
Do you spot a well designed strategy?
BHU: The Death of a University
Someone once told me that the nature of protests in a university depicts its true health. Looking at BHU I fear it is dead.
We Need to Create a Vocabulary of Protest Which Resonates with Students, Citizens
As students, this is our moment and we must own it. We have something that this regime lacks: the power of imagination and the ability to think and ask …
Illustrated: Civil Disobedience in 2019 Delhi
The Wire's illustrator Pariplab Chakraborty ventured out in these troubled times to see a city come together despite facing a sea of khaki.