Anti-CAA Protests: Is This What the Freedom Movement Felt Like?
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Anti-CAA Protests: Is This What the Freedom Movement Felt Like?

As a child, I would often ask my grandfather what August 15, 1947 was like, only to get drab one liners like “Arre, kya jashn hue the” in return. It was only on December 19, 2019, on a trip to August Kranti Maidan in Mumbai, that I got my first taste of what I think the Independence movement must have felt like.
Why We Need to Sustain the Anti-CAA Protests Peacefully
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Why We Need to Sustain the Anti-CAA Protests Peacefully

The silver lining to the dark cloud of the anti-CAA protests is that the Act went from being something that people had heard about but not fully understood, to the subject of a mass movement. Now, there is a sense that this idea is not fringe anymore. There’s a feeling that it could get better.