On October 5 last year, Masud Ahmed was travelling through Mathura, a town in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, when a team of police officers waved him over.
The officers, who were manning a checkpoint, asked him and three co-passengers questions including their names, affiliation and purpose of travel.
Wearing a grey button-down shirt, a blue hat with his beard trimmed short, the 26-year-old student activist told the officers they were on their way to Hathras, a small town in Uttar Pradesh state 43km (26 miles) from Mathura and about 200km (124 miles) from the capital, New Delhi.
The four were going to meet the family of a 19-year-old Dalit teenager who had been gang-raped by four Hindu upper-caste men three weeks before their journey.
CONVERGING ROOTS OF CREATIVITY: ROOTS 2.0
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Being one of its kind, ROOTS 2.0 was a huge success. Organized by like-minded arts and culture enthusiasts and with the help extended from Arts and Cultural Society, SAC, the event witnessed footfall of 9 greats from a variety of fields such as industrial design, poetry, travel photography, filmmaking, and automobile designing. Team MM brings you the details of the two-day fest.
DAY 1
Unfortunately, due to some technical issues, the event was delayed by an odd 30 minutes, but once it started, it was in full swing. All the sessions for day 1 were scheduled to be held at the auditorium of TIIR building. Here is a briefing on what followed.