Since the time Delhi Police thrashed protestors at Delhi Gate yesterday, there have been so many people relentlessly fighting against the system. Lawyers who rushed to the spot, who called for help, social media warriors who don't get their due in amplifying voices and getting..
help from various quarters, a magistrate who's fair, doctors who helped, offered tips to help those who were waiting for help to reach them, journalists (not as many of them who should have been there but nevertheless) who reported, and most of all, students and activists...
who not only pressured the police to release those who they illegally detained, and in that cold, till 4 30 AM, shouted slogans and sang songs to prove we don't cow down if they bully, people who reached Daryaganj, Seelampur, ITO and other places to help or in solidarity...
leaders of student organisations coming up with new plans to increase the pressure on police, young leaders, bullied in the past, discussing the next course of action by taking suggestions from a crowd (mostly strangers) and democratically deciding on what to do next ...
a Dalit leader who led a massive protest for those who are discriminated against, living up to his name multiple times in a day, and many many people who decided to join the protestors in the dead of the night, reaching these places with water bottles and biscuit packets and ...
tea for all, people who, quietly, walked around the area filled with more than 150 - 200 people picking up trash and ensuring the area is not littered, and towards the end, people who sat on the ground, leaning on the barricades, calmly, with hope...
I looked at them and wondered, "What's it that is giving them this energy? Such empathy? Such resilience and willpower and courage?" It's not like their loved ones were detained, hell, at least half the people there weren't even Muslims. So it's not that they're doing it for ...
someone who they know personally or on the basis of their religion. But all these people were there, and it was so overwhelming to see all of this.
These are all people who care about this country, the secular country they grew up in, people who believe in the Constitution...
These are all people who care about this country, the secular country they grew up in, people who believe in the Constitution...
and non-violence. People who believe in doing, saying, standing by what is right, at the right time, in the right way. People who are humane, who want to live in an India that doesn't discriminate. These are people who have taken responsibility to make things right...
and I firmly believe that is exactly why not one of them know fear. Not one of them. They'll sing and raise slogans and make art and put internet and social media to its best use and speak truth tirelessly to power and win.
Win, they will.
And when they do, you will too.
Win, they will.
And when they do, you will too.
Apologies. I wrote Seelampur instead of Seemapuri. Wasn't intentional.
