India, Feb. 24 -- "It is important to stand up and be dissenters. It is only through your power of expressing views and courage of stating contrary positions that you will make others stop and think." Thus, spoke Justice D. Y. Chandrachud of the Supreme Court, addressing law students in Gujarat recently. His elucidation of dissent as the 'core and soul' of democracy comes at a time the country is in the throes of protests over CAA-NPR-NRC issues. Contrast it with the following scenes witnessed across the country. Police unleashed brutal attack on students, engrossed in reading in the library of Jamia Milia University, in the guise of taking on protesters; police remain mute spectators as masked men let loose reign of terror on the corridors...