India, Jan. 27 -- New Delhi

It is December 2019. Waves of protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) are rocking the Capital as anger against the controversial legislation is bubbling to the surface. Universities are particularly on the boil, with students, especially Muslim groups, hosting sit-in agitations, spreading tarpaulin sheets in campuses and roadside corners, organising impromptu meetings, and joining other organic demonstrations organised by locals. At one such meeting at Jamia Millia Islamia on December 13, a 31 year-old student from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) steps up to the front of the gathering, his round rimmed glasses and black tunic casting a shadow under the streetlight and speaks about CAA, Assam, st...