2020: The Protests That Didn’t Make It
The Centre has, since last one year, passed on several legislations which directly and indirectly give effect to social and political restructuring
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Aishwarya Bhattacharyya, Muzammil Yaqoob
2020-12-19T17:42:07+05:30
2020: The Protests That Didn’t Make It
outlookindia.com
2020-12-19T17:50:32+05:30
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This year, the Indian subcontinent will be reviewed as a researcher’s delight. Repressive state, an agitated civil society, countrywide protests, and an international surfeit of support ---- we have a major case study brewing for all the scholars of democracy around the world.
Look, here it crumbles! True. But to what extent are these pointers effective in mapping such a breakdown? Instead, as we see the country erupt in protests with the students, workers and veterans gather up as comrades-in-arms with the farmers in these wee hours of the blessed year that 2020 has been, the BJP- led central government has managed to move ahead with several bills that did not make enough noise but worked just as subtly to bring up a massive set of changes to the basic fibre of minimalist protection meted out to the most underprivileged. It is at this intersectional concept – that of what construes the underprivileged – that the rights of the economically deprived, the religious minorities, the linguistically challenged and the regionally peripheral fire-play.