India, Dec. 24 -- The demonstrations in several cities since the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) are highly coordinated, with agitators connected to groups in different parts of the same city, having transport for rapid movement from one spot to another, given contact numbers to access eminent lawyers, taught to access offline communication during internet shutdowns and armed with protest tools. Their slogans are fairly uniform, political parties and groups behind them are the same and now, an eminent E-zine has issued an "advisory" for politically correct coverage of the rallies.

With violence exceeding one week (and likely to continue after a Christmas break), there is an urgent need to delink the CAA from the non-existe...