Debraj Mitra | | Published 14.04.21, 01:29 AM
Salman Rushdie finds “hope in the determination of India’s women and college students to resist” sectarianism and “dismiss the darkness”.
Since Parliament passed the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act on December 11, 2019, protests led by the young and the women have been held across the country. Calcutta emerged as one of the epicentres of that rallying cry against the new citizenship thrust.
The Telegraph tracks the journey of some of the protesters who had been at the forefront of the movement a year ago and whose struggles have found their way into the electoral battle of Bengal. Many of them are back to doing their bit in resisting an “autocratic and majoritarian regime”. Here’s how