It is the young who have taken to the streets today, and these young women and men are fighting to resurrect the soul of India. They may ha...
It is the young who have taken to the streets today, and these young women and men are fighting to resurrect the soul of India. They may have appeared to be silent over the lynchings, over the betrayal and brutal smothering of Kashmir, the attacks on the Universities as breeding grounds of critical thinking and resistance, over the slapping of false charges against dissenters, or the manner in which the media itself has normalised hatred against specific communities, by the outrageous judgements delivered or deferred by the courts including the highest in the land.
The cup of misery and anger has overflowed: no more, the young are saying. We may not have been around when we gave ourselves the Constitution seventy years ago, but we are there now to defend its values, in letter and in spirit. Across the country the preamble is being read, not just in the beautiful voice of Naseeruddin Shah but in the ordinary voices of young women and men in colleges and Universities.
The tricolour waves across protest sites, and we join in chorus with the Jamia students who were beaten and abused and still sang “sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamare dil mein, dekkhna hai zor kitna...
