Protesting for up to 20 hours a day, a few protestors outside Jamia are persevering on despite the cold to make their voices heard.
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Shaheen Bagh’s Safe Classroom: An Alternative Education Space
Volunteers have set up a makeshift classroom near the protest site where many of the children of Shaheen Bagh come to learn, read, draw and discuss the causes driving …
‘We Only Asked Them to Talk to Us Politely – They Were Screaming at the Top of Their Lungs’
Two students of Jyoti Nivas College Autonomous, Bengaluru, talk about the viral video of their confrontation with BJP workers who hung a pro-CAA banner on the college wall.
Musings of a Student Protestor
The protests in India this winter have been a vociferous expression of the freedom of speech.
I am The Voice They Tried to Suppress
All those silent in these times, we need you.
Artists in Jamia Gather to Disturb the ‘Comfortable’, Paint the Streets With Colour
"Let’s see if the government considers colours and brushes to be violent."
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 …
My College Was Burning – and I Couldn’t Do Anything
As news of police action in my former university against protesting students began to emerge, my parents did what they learnt from best: shut me down.
What Democracy Is, and What It Isn’t – a View from Beijing
We may (or may not) support CAA, but can we support the violence we are being subjected to for exercising our rights?