ecosystem of bigotry, overseen by the governing BJP and enabled by much of the
media, has weaponised even the pandemic to fuel
Islamophobia. But it hasnât succeeded in dismantling the solidarities that have emerged in resistance, mostly notably amid widespread protests against the citizenship law at the turn of the year. And at the heart of this resistance have been students.
Along with the Muslim woman at Shaheen Bagh and elsewhere,
students play a key role in the public pushback against the Citizenship Amendment Act, or CAA, and the National Register of Citizens, or NRC. In retaliation, they were