Stop criminalising student protests

Protestors at Columbia University (America)

Protestors at the Jamia Campus (India)

From Columbia University to Jamia Millia Islamia, students are being criminalized for standing up for justice and equality. By silencing dissent, we risk creating a generation that sees protest as a 'bad word'—eroding the very foundations of democracy and the power of collective voice. In Jamia students were suspended for commemorating the citizenship protest, at the Bernard campus, students speaking in solidarity with Palestine were arrested. Both events happened in the same week. I look at the parallels, drawing references from the past and what it bodes for our future