Learning the politics of protest
Last week, as I was walking down towards Jantar Mantar, the “democracy showroom” in the National Capital , a venue exclusively segregated for such democratic protest for every citizen of a democratic country like India ( one need permission to do that from the Police , though). Some girls who were behind me were giggling and whispering “this is my first time going for this kind of thing”. They were a little nervous. At the protest demonstration site, there were young men and women, students, young working professionals – both public – private sectors, scholars, from North East India. Truly most of them were not protest savy, and appear very new to the event, the surroundings (from body language). Most of the youths came to participate after receiving sms or Face-book updates from their friends and friends’ friends. In-fact most of them do not know the whole sequences of the event that led to the death of Nido Tania (from Arunachal Pradesh). They are not so legally aware , ...